12 Years After Haswell, Intel Open-Source Graphics Developers Still Make Occasional Fix

[phoronix]

Phoronix: 12 Years After Haswell, Intel Open-Source Graphics Developers Still Make Occasional Fix

The Intel Haswell CPUs were originally introduced back in 2013 and great for the time. Under Microsoft Windows the driver support has long been obsolete but under Linux with Intel's open-source driver support there is still even the occasional fix all these years later. Coming up for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle in 2025 is a fix to benefit Haswell and similarly aged Intel platforms with integrated graphics...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haswell-Engine-Fix-For-Linux-25

[sages]

vintage? my i7 4790k is my daily driver. i'm replacing this summer it's getting old

[johanb]

Still love my Thinkpad X1 carbon 3rd gen with broadwell. Only wish it had USB-C for charging and docking to a monitor. Nice to see these old but still reliable and good enough chips being maintained!

[alegui]

Still love my Thinkpad X1 carbon 3rd gen with broadwell. Only wish it had USB-C for charging and docking to a monitor. Nice to see these old but still reliable and good enough chips being maintained!

It's nice that semi-old hardware still receives improvements, however Broadwell integrated graphics use newer (gen8) silicon that this patch target

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Technology#Gen8_architecture

[ms178]

As Haswell supports AVX2, it is still relevant today. The cheap Haswell-EP Xeons are also still very capable for multi-core workloads if energy efficiency is of no concern.

[mr_marmalade]

I'm still running my Haswell i5-4570 (with a GeForce 750 Ti). I don't yet have any reason to upgrade it as it runs what I need to without any problems. I even recently treated it to 16GB of shiny new RAM seeing as it was cheap.

[PluMGMK]

vintage? my i7 4790k is my daily driver.

Me too! It'd take a lot to make me want to change it at this point…

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

As Haswell supports AVX2, it is still relevant today. The cheap Haswell-EP Xeons are also still very capable for multi-core workloads if energy efficiency is of no concern.

Haswell Xeons are still fine for day-to-day usage. In the USA there's just little point in buying them as the generation newer 14nm v4 Broadwell Xeons are also dirt cheap.

[ms178]

Haswell Xeons are still fine for day-to-day usage. In the USA there's just little point in buying them as the generation newer 14nm v4 Broadwell Xeons are also dirt cheap.

There might be a reason to get Haswell over Broadwell for desktop use: You can "overclock" these Haswell Xeons with a Turbo Boost unlock which is not available for Broadwell. On the other hand, Broadwell should put less strain on the motherboard VRMs. I have fond memories of my former Haswell-EP system and the modding of that machine from the BIOS level up the stack. If power costs would have been better where I live, I would have opted for a dual Haswell-EP Xeon setup.