[fedora-arm] Re: Intel Xe

Intel Xe drivers were included in the aarch64 kernel since kernel 6.10.
Recently, Intel support was included in libdrm-2.4.123-1.fc40.aarch64 or
earlier.
Now the wait is for including Intel in building mesa-lib-drivers for
aarch64.

On 8/12/24 12:16 PM, Pim Zandbergen wrote:
> 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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