On 10 June 2016 at 02:41, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
And Skylake is his only option if he wants DDR4. Amd he wants DDR4 so that he can use the same memory as his higher end stations. I honestly think this is worth the risk, because Intel is known to work on its Linux drivers, so even if one has to disable acceleration temporarily it should not be too long.
Intel's contribution to the FOSS video driver seems to be vested almost entirely in a very heavily overloaded Chris Wilson. Intel's driver has been stuck at "2.99.917" for about 20 months.
As I understand from what I google, the Skylake changes need kernel work not X.org driver work? And Chris Wilson is still one more compared to the alternatives from NVidia and AMD/ATI? Though I am not really sure about the latter.
OTOH and NAICT, it doesn't seem to be common knowledge that Intel gfx users have two competent drivers to choose from on Linux. The modeset driver built into Xorg since 1.17.x is supposed to be good for all of the big three gfxchip lines, as long as the user's gfxchip is non-antique, somewhere in the 8-9 years old or less range. I'm using modeset for all my installations that qualify with new enough server and new enough gfxchip, with no gfx performance issues that I've as yet become aware of.
But this means one lives without DRI/3D at all? Might be a good stopgap for Skylake, I don't know enough about that. -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org