[fedora-arm] Re: Intel Xe

Hi,

Fedora kernel 6.10 for aarch64 now includes the Intel xe driver. Great!

Unfortunately, 2D only, as libdrm and mesa are still built without Intel
support.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292904
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292901

Hope this gets resolved soon.

Pim


On 8-7-2024 19:57, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 at 16:47, Pim Zandbergen <pim@zandbergen.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It has been reported that Intel Xe kernel drivers build and run fine on
>> aarch64 in 2D mode.
>> 3D support comes after enabling Intel in libdrm and mesa, but currently
>> is not stable.
>> Supposedly, this will be greatly improved in kernel 6.11 which will have
>> many Xe updates.
>> Having 2D now would already be a plus.
> I had read it's all a WIP but enabling it now doesn't affect other
> users and usercases so it doesn't hurt. It makes it easier for those
> that wish to try it but of course there's no guarantee as to how well
> it will work :)
>
>> Pim
>>
>> On 8-7-2024 17:26, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> Upstream has support for Intel Xe graphics in all of kernel, libdrm and
>>>> mesa, yet all of these packages are built with Intel support disabled on
>>>> aarch64.
>>>>
>>>> Intel Xe drivers, unlike i915 are architecture independent.
>>>> On x86_64, they conflict with i915 drivers, so an elaborate scheme is
>>>> used to allow both drivers to coexist.
>>>> On aarch64, Intel Xe has no legacy counterpart, so no conflict either.
>>>>
>>>> All the more reason to enable Intel Xe on aarch64, just like on x86_64.
>>>> Intel Xe support may not be perfect on aarch64, but this is just as true
>>>> on x86_64.
>>> When it first landed upstream it was still x86 only and they said they
>>> were working on it. I did see there were patches upstream to fix the
>>> issues. I'll take a look at what's required to build it multi arch.
>>>
>>> Peter

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