Intel Preparing New Driver Option To Disable GPU Security Mitigations

[Axl_Mas]

Once installed the patch and set i915.mitigations=off in Grub, there is a way to check if the graphic mitigations have been disabled fro real?

Update: With the patches I solve my hangs with Hanswell (I had them watching x265 UHD files with mpv) and the i915 mitigations off gives me 20% more FPS in glxgear (vblank 0)

[hotaru]

Seven years after release? Nope. Supplying software updates is the right solution, and I appreciate that Intel does exactly that. Any other vendor would probably just proclaim the hardware is unsupported now.

any other vendor would have been fined out of existence if they knowingly sold dangerously defective products and then refused to issue a recall when the problems became publicly known.

[archkde]

a far more reasonable option than either of those two would be to recall the defective hardware.

Seven years after release? Nope. Supplying software updates is the right solution, and I appreciate that Intel does exactly that. Any other vendor would probably just proclaim the hardware is unsupported now.

[ferry]

a far more reasonable option than either of those two would be to recall the defective hardware.

My Acer 720P (former Chromebook) is more then 5 years old. The hardware is not defective, the graphics driver is. I'm running kernel 5.6 now, which works fine.
If you mean that the hardware protection against attacks is less then Fort Knox, that may be right, but then again there's no gold stored on this laptop.

I do appreciate when I'm able to login though.

[nkalkhof]

Does this also disable the soft-rc6 solution for Gen9 graphics resulting in increased power drain during light workloads?

[intelfx]

Ah yes, enjoy AMD hardware that constantly breaks, doesn't get fixed for months, they don't reveal any info about the important bits like power management, and don't implement it either. Hardware support is always late, and requires you to run Arch Linux and compile the latest commits from main. Major and critical features are heavily delayed and most of the support is finished up 2-3 years after release. Some features will never be supported for no good reason, even though the Windows driver has support for the same.

And NVIDIA hardware support while excellent, doesn't support Wayland in the same way the others do. NVIDIA's politics around Wayland are just crappy.

As an owner of an AMD platform for two generations now, I can't help but concur with this statement.

[hotaru]

Those are literally the only two options, you doofus.

a far more reasonable option than either of those two would be to recall the defective hardware.

So that's their solution? Disabling mitigations, putting users at risk?
Glad I don't own any Intel hardware.

Ah yes, enjoy AMD hardware that constantly breaks, doesn't get fixed for months, they don't reveal any info about the important bits like power management, and don't implement it either. Hardware support is always late, and requires you to run Arch Linux and compile the latest commits from main. Major and critical features are heavily delayed and most of the support is finished up 2-3 years after release. Some features will never be supported for no good reason, even though the Windows driver has support for the same.

And NVIDIA hardware support while excellent, doesn't support Wayland in the same way the others do. NVIDIA's politics around Wayland are just crappy.

[JigglypuffSexDoll]

So that's their solution? Disabling mitigations, putting users at risk?
Glad I don't own any Intel hardware.

Those are literally the only two options, you doofus.

[Michael]

So that's their solution? Disabling mitigations, putting users at risk?
Glad I don't own any Intel hardware.

As mentioned in the article, there is also a patch to fix the GT1 issue as well.