@waveform You would be correct that this is just a version bump to what
we have in Oracular. Our original graphics stack enablement happened on
Oracular, so we're mostly just trying to get that effort SRU'd back to
Noble

** Description changed:

  [ 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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