Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for Discrete GPUs

Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by bitL on Saturday February 16, 2019 @09:01PM (#19182183)

Can't wait to pair my Threadripper with an Intel GPU :D Now NVidia, please release an x64 processor to have a complete mix on the market.

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by techntoke on Sunday February 17, 2019 @01:28AM (#19182980)

The advantage of Intel drivers is their support of virtual GPUs which neither AMD or NVIDIA support for consumer graphics cards.

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by giancarlostoro on Saturday February 16, 2019 @09:32PM (#19182306)

I rather they fix their GPU drivers by open sourcing them, or AMD.

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by implying on Saturday February 16, 2019 @09:52PM (#19182394)

AMD's Linux stack is not only completely open source, most of it is in-kernel and maintained by AMD devs.

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by slezyr on Sunday February 17, 2019 @04:48AM (#19183628)

Try to use OpenCL and you will need blobs. It's major pain to use blender(requires OpenCL if you want to finish render today) not long time ago their blob crashed on new versions libdrm.

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by floatboth on Sunday February 17, 2019 @05:59AM (#19183828)

The blobs are probably the most stable option right now, but Clover exists (and kinda sucks) and the new cool option is the fully open ROCm stack which does include OpenCL.

> requires OpenCL if you want to finish render today

honestly, modern CPUs aren't that far behind in Cycles rendering

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by greenpenguin on Sunday February 17, 2019 @09:30AM (#19184599)

I'm using RocM OpenCL right now, which I believe is the approved option, or will be. Personally I've not had any issues with it - I can certainly use Blender with it, although the performance right now is so-so (I only have a cheap APU though, so hardly surprising).

I don't believe I have any blobs, other than the firmware one, which is true regardless - can you tell me what blobs you mean?

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by slezyr on Sunday February 17, 2019 @09:46AM (#19184675)

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd/

this one, part of amdgpu-pro

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by greenpenguin on Sunday February 17, 2019 @09:59AM (#19184748)

I can confirm I don't have that installed. I'm using this: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime

Edit: actually Blender performance is decent, but the kernels take ~10 minutes to compile.

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday February 17, 2019 @01:12AM (#19182927)

That's only for new stuff, right? Older GPUs are still stuck with radeon or wonky proprietary drivers?

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by ahartmetz on Sunday February 17, 2019 @01:46AM (#19183035)

AMD's GCN architecture is about 7 years old and fully supported. Open source support for the previous TeraScale architecture is reportedly fairly good too, though no Vulkan.

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by pjmlp on Sunday February 17, 2019 @03:20PM (#19186615)

Pity that to use those I would need to replace my laptop, meanwhile the DirectX 11 driver still works.

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by twtw on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:36PM (#19185623)

I thought amdgpu only officially supported GCN 1.2 and later, which is more like 4.5 years old?

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by gpderetta on Sunday February 17, 2019 @07:46AM (#19184198)

My understanding is that the best AMD Vulkan implementation is still the indipendently developed one as AMD took forever to open source their own.

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by ran3824692 on Sunday February 17, 2019 @10:06AM (#19184778)

No, it requires nonfree firmware to be loaded by the driver.

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by bpye on Sunday February 17, 2019 @04:30AM (#19183566)

There were rumours of Nvidia having an x86 variant of their Denver core but killed it because of licensing. I wonder how true that is.

https://semiaccurate.com/2011/08/05/what-is-project-denver-b...

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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by nicoburns on Sunday February 17, 2019 @10:55AM (#19185018)

I wonder if nvidia could even compete with a high-end ARM cpu. Windows runs on ARM these days. Server software runs on ARM. So it would "just" be a matter of getting the performance right.

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