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

[Jorge Almeida]

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.
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