[Bug 2095074] Re: [SRU] Upgrade to media driver version 24.3.4 in Noble

[Daniel van Vugt]

Yeah the diffs are impossible to review in this form. Also 17MB
each!?...

It looks like it's just adding Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake and Battlemage
support. But I think the sensible thing here is to apply the diffs and
then diff the result against the Oracular source. Make sure only debian/
differs after that... Unless they can be uploaded without using diffs.
Just confirming it's the correct upstream source would be fine in my
mind because we cannot verify the correctness of the individual changes.

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Title:
  [SRU] Upgrade to media driver version 24.3.4 in Noble

Status in intel-gmmlib package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in intel-media-driver package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in intel-media-driver-non-free package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in libva package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in intel-gmmlib source package in Noble:
  New
Status in intel-media-driver source package in Noble:
  New
Status in intel-media-driver-non-free source package in Noble:
  New
Status in libva source package in Noble:
  New

Bug description:
  [ Description ]
  Intel has requested us to update the media driver (free and non-free) to 24.3.4 due to the need to have Lunar Lake (LNL) and Battle Mage (BMG) support.

  This request has a strong dependency on an intel-gmmlib version bump
  to 22.5.2 and a libva version bump to 2.22.0.

  [ Impact ]

   * Users with Lunar Lake or Battlemage currently do not have an LTS support option, which is not a good option for some users, as seen here:
  https://github.com/canonical/intel-graphics-preview/issues/8

   * Users with Lunar Lake or Battlemage hardware will not have
  hardware-enabled media support, which can effect the power consumption
  and CPU utilization of the machine during encode/decode/transcode
  operations, video calls, streaming, etc.

  [ Test Plan ]

  # On a Lunar Lake or Battlemage machine

  # Required at this time to get baseline enablement
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kobuk-team/intel-graphics-testing
  sudo apt update

  # Get the original versions back
  sudo apt install -y intel-media-va-driver-non-free=24.1.0+ds1-1  libva2=2.20.0-2build1 libigdgmm12=22.3.17+ds1-1  vainfo=2.12.0+ds1-1 libva-drm2=2.20.0-2build1 libva-wayland2=2.20.0-2build1 libva-x11-2=2.20.0-2build1

  # This should result in an error
  sudo vainfo

  sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:mckeesh/testing && sudo apt -y update
  # Only upgrade the media packages
  sudo apt install -y intel-media-va-driver-non-free=24.3.4+ds1-0ubuntu1  libva2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 libigdgmm12=22.5.2-0ubuntu1 libva-drm2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 libva-wayland2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 libva-x11-2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 vainfo=2.12.0+ds1-1

  # This should no longer result in an error
  sudo vainfo

  [ Where problems could occur ]

   * This is a sizable change, and while significant testing goes into
  making sure the media stack does not regress, it's always a risk.
  Ubuntu has a large user base with many, many corner cases, and media
  stack bumps can always accidentally regress a less popular codec on an
  older platform. However, we can address any smaller regressions that
  might arise when the benefit is enablement of LNL and BMG.

  * Beyond Intel's extensive in-house testing, we have done our own
  testing via FFMPEG to check for AV1, VP9, and H264 hardware
  acceleration for encode and decode at 1080p and 4K. In addition to
  Lunar Lake and Battlemage, we have also tested Alder Lake, Comet Lake,
  and Gemini Lake and found no regressions across these platforms

  [ Other Info ]

  * This would ideally land at the same time as the libvpl version bump
  SRU here:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onevpl/+bug/2096823

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