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Intel does a surprisingly fantastic job of open-sourcing things. They're one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel, and the official drivers for their
by piperswe 5y ago
Intel does a surprisingly fantastic job of open-sourcing things. They're one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel, and the official drivers for their integrated GPUs are in the mainline kernel. I wouldn't be surprised if we soon see patches submitted from Intel adding Alder Lake support to Linux's Capacity Aware Scheduling [1], or if there already have been patches submitted under the radar.
EDIT: Oh, and Linux support for their NICs is fantastic as well in my experience, both wired and wireless. That's something Broadcom can learn from - I end up replacing Broadcom wireless NICs in my laptops with Intel ones because it's such a pain to work with Broadcom on Linux.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/scheduler/sched-capacity.html
- GhettoComputers 5y agoIsn’t AMD’s graphics also in mainline? I’m very happy with using Intel support on Linux, the only reason I had seeked Broadcom was for the wireless injection intel couldn’t do.
- piperswe 5y agoIt is, I was mostly just making a jab at NVIDIA.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoNvidia, fuck you! middle finger They finally have some (nonstandard) Wayland support, after the standards were set and they had every chance to make changes, and its shitty that their open source linux drivers are locked at a low clock unless you have an old GPU. Horrible Linux experience, Linus needs to flip them off again. Its not bad with the propietary drivers, and its unfortunately the only way to run a CUDA for ML.
- brokenmachine 5y agoMy next GPU won't be an Nvidia, because of the linux nonsupport. Screw you, Nvidia.