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

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[ 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 ]

** Affects: intel-gmmlib (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: intel-media-driver (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: intel-media-driver-non-free (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: libva (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: intel-gmmlib (Ubuntu Noble)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: intel-media-driver (Ubuntu Noble)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: intel-media-driver-non-free (Ubuntu Noble)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: libva (Ubuntu Noble)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: pe--sponsoring-request
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[SRU] Upgrade to media driver version 24.3.4 in Noble
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2095074
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