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Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Do A Better Job Of Keeping Track Of Its Engine Busyness
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Originally posted by Espionage724 View PostEw GuC
Not directly related, but I'm still confused about firmware load on pre-Arc. dmesg reports clearly GuC/HuC firmware loading isn't supported and worded to sound like it fails with guc=3, but the sys option shows it definitely load (logs). Apparently there's something about the media driver and better encode or decode with HuC enabled (never tested it) but I'm not actively aware of any differences with it default/0 or forced/3 on UHD 630. I'm also not sure if it interfaces with Management Engine (I have it HAP bit disabled no HECI but GuC/HuC still loads; I vaguely recall one of those 3 being related to i915 PAVP too).
Is there something obvious GuC and HuC firmware do vs not having either where it's optional?
Anyways, the GuC is supposed to offload portions of the kernel driver to make the GPU more performant and HuC enables low power video decoding and encoding.
If it works for your GPU, I would enable it. But if you are one of those anti-blob people, don't and have a worse performing GPU.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View Post
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I doubt it's actually at a loss but there's no way they're making money on these cards.Last edited by the-burrito-triangle; 18 December 2024, 09:21 PM.
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Originally posted by M@GOid View PostI have a hard time believing they had any big stock of those things. No retailer knew how well those cards would be received, not even Intel I think, so no reason to keep a good stock of them. And who can blame them?
Now Intel is running against the clock before Nvidia and AMD announce their new lineup in a month or so, before a good chunk of potential buyers change their minds and decide to go with the usual suspects.
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Originally posted by Espionage724 View PostEw GuC
Not directly related, but I'm still confused about firmware load on pre-Arc. dmesg reports clearly GuC/HuC firmware loading isn't supported and worded to sound like it fails with guc=3, but the sys option shows it definitely load (logs). Apparently there's something about the media driver and better encode or decode with HuC enabled (never tested it) but I'm not actively aware of any differences with it default/0 or forced/3 on UHD 630. I'm also not sure if it interfaces with Management Engine (I have it HAP bit disabled no HECI but GuC/HuC still loads; I vaguely recall one of those 3 being related to i915 PAVP too).
Is there something obvious GuC and HuC firmware do vs not having either where it's optional?
Presumably meaning that Battlemage forward have some 'easier' to program for hw video encoder? Or perhaps it's the memory arch, or a combo of the two(or more things)?
So for Alchemist you get a choicing of rebooting per needs/desires switching between i915(still default AFAICT) or dual booting w/windows... Ofc most people I know still have a dedicated windows machine at least for gaming, if not for some other niche proprietary software, usually related to video and graphics production... there are also a number of scientific and engineering applications that really only run under Windows as well...
...and yes I know there are also people who use macs for similar video/graphic production workflows as it also support much of that niche software pretty well... I just have little recent experience w/OSX so can't really comment, and additionally I do no video editing, audio editing, or graphics work... so YMMV...
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