For me the most exciting thing about Skylake GPUs is its support of GVT-g which will allow the GPU to be shared with up to 4 VMs. This will avoid dealing altoge

For me the most exciting thing about Skylake GPUs is its support of GVT-g which will allow the GPU to be shared with up to 4 VMs. This will avoid dealing altogether with nVidia shenanigans for PCI passthrough. The disappointing thing is that they will require firmware binary blobs [1]. Although while it opens an attack surface, in principle it should be limited to the own hardware, so not much of a problem. (There are bigger problems like Intel ME). But it's the drivers what matters the most. Which I hope they keep releasing as open source. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=intel-skl-bxt-firmware-blobs http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=intel-skl...