Sunday, September 1, 2024

[fedora-arm] Re: Intel Xe

On Sun, 1 Sept 2024 at 18:42, Pim Zandbergen <pim@zandbergen.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yup things are moving forward like I said they would....

> Now the wait is for including Intel in building mesa-lib-drivers for
> aarch64.

I don't have a lot of spare time, I did start looking at it, I
haven't had time to finish it.

> 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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