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Intel Will Submit New Xe Kernel Graphics Driver Soon - Likely For Linux 6.8
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Originally posted by CommunityMember View Post
Fortunately, the i915 driver supports the card as shipped. If you want new features, prepare to pay (either with your own work, or work you fund).
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I don't consider the driver supporting the card as shipped until it has at least some feature parity with what MS Windows gets for the same GPU:
* ASPM / power management that can be made to work (i.e. has documentation, API, supported implementation) on LINUX so the nearly idle power goes to a level as low as achieved in MSW.
* Clock / fan / temperature monitoring / control documentation, APIs, control panel / CLI utilities
* LED control via supported documentation, API, utility
I have not heard of a single person who on any version of LINUX regardless of the ASPM L1/L0 state option setting capability of their motherboard / BIOS and regardless of kernel / i915 driver version / OS distribution has gotten an ARC 3/5/7xx GPU to use as low "idle" power as on MSWin in comparable cases of monitor count / resolution / refresh rate / interface. If Intel wants to blame that on something about LINUX rather than i915 / ARC then they need to provide documentation / APIs and suggestions upstream to "go fix x,y,z" in the rest of LINUX so that it is practicable.
AFAIK my other PCIE devices / other OEM GPUs seem to have working & utilized ASPM power savings functions on LINUX.
And, really, no temperature / fan / clock monitoring / control, what, is that a whole 1-page of API documentation or interface functions they'd have to write?
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Originally posted by shanedav4 View PostThe Xe driver does not fully support the current generation of Arc Alchemist cards and Intel has said it never will. We'll have to jump back and forth between i915 and Xe depending on what your doing. Battlemage will be fully supported though by Xe.
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Originally posted by jorgepl View Post
What? So Integrated GPUs will, but current Arc dGPUs won't?
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