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Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now... by schmorptron on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:21AM (#29564454)
So does Intel also include their compute features in the mainline drivers, unlike AMD? That'd be something to push me towards them when GPUs become available and somewhat reasonably priced again
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Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now... by commoner on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:44AM (#29567504)
Intel's compute features are in a separate open source package called Intel Graphics Compute Runtime.[1] Integrated graphics from 2014 (Broadwell) and later are supported. Support for discrete graphics (2020 onward) is in development.[2]

AMD provides an open source OpenCL solution for Linux called ROCm, but the project is too limited to be helpful in many use cases. ROCm supports a total of 6 GPU models, all from previous generations,[3] and does not support GUI-based software applications such as Blender.[4]

[1] https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime

[2] https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/issues/469#issuecom...

[3] https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Instal...

[4] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1397

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Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now... by schmorptron on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @01:48PM (#29570045)
Awesome, thanks!
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