Re: [gentoo-user] drivers for INTEL integrated GPU?

[R0b0t1]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:28 PM, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers/000005520.html
>> ev says that everything up to Intel HD 620 is supported. It is
>> probably reasonable to assume that a HD 630 device is supported.
>>
>
> OTOH, the gentoo WiKi https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel seems to
> imply that the commitment of Intel with Linux may be somewhat
> colder...
>
>>
>> There are Intel HD devices, but there are also Iris devices. Per
>> marketing materials I found the Iris line is intended to be
>> distributed with higher-end computers for "professional" use. Do Iris
>> and HD devices actually differ in driver support or is it mostly the
>> name that shows up in lspci or Window's device manager that differs?
>
> First time I read about it. Wikipedia
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_and_Iris_Graphics has a few
> tables suggesting Iris is higher end stuff. I don't know about kernel
> support.
>>
>

They seem to be shipped with very high-end mobile devices (elitebooks,
dell XPS line, Microsoft's Surface) that do not have a discrete GPU.
From what I can tell it may be hardware differences that don't
propagate up to the driver level, but there seems to be no info on it.
I had been assuming they were compatible but had no proof.