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Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

One of the great aspects of Intel integrated and discrete graphics is the broad support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV).

Intel "Gen12" graphics back to Tigerlake can handle SR-IOV when there aren't any firmware woes or other issues at play.

For most users these details won't mean much besides the refreshing fact of Intel continuing to support SR-IOV across their spectrum of graphics products on Linux moving forward.

Those curious about all the fine technical details on the SR-IOV support plans for the Intel Xe Direct Rendering Manager driver can find their RFC design document on the dri-devel mailing list.

The Intel Xe DRM kernel driver has yet to be mainlined to the Linux kernel even in experimental form, but hopefully we'll finally see that happen in the early months of 2024 to make it easier for testing and evaluation by enthusiasts.

The Xe driver is designed around modern graphics needs and kernel interfaces compared to i915, ultimately should be faster with all the improvements, better support features like sparse resources, and will also be better supported on non-x86 kernels for those using Intel Arc Graphics on the like of AArch64 / POWER / RISC-V.

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