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Intel Arc Support in Kernel 6.8
carlosgonz:
I got some new conversations with Arc engineers today and there is a light on the horizon to get ARC work without blobs or at least with a reduced dose of blobs. I will testing on coming days and report here later.
bobpaul:
--- Quote from: Hasturtium on January 24, 2024, 09:01:53 am ---it does support the current Alchemist line; the only thing we'll likely miss out on is support for the HuC microcontroller. Without that support the video encoder is rather less capable...
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Kernel docs only mention reference HEVC/H.265. The media driver mentions that either HuC or shader based encoding(which is hopefully still better than CPU based). Does encoding for h.264, VP9, and AV1 work that way?
I found this upstream bug tracking the issue. From the link in the last comment it looks like no accelerated decode on the A380 even with i915 driver? that can't be right...
Hasturtium:
--- Quote from: bobpaul on March 06, 2025, 10:16:19 am ---
--- Quote from: Hasturtium on January 24, 2024, 09:01:53 am ---it does support the current Alchemist line; the only thing we'll likely miss out on is support for the HuC microcontroller. Without that support the video encoder is rather less capable...
--- End quote ---
Kernel docs only mention reference HEVC/H.265. The media driver mentions that either HuC or shader based encoding(which is hopefully still better than CPU based). Does encoding for h.264, VP9, and AV1 work that way?
I found this upstream bug tracking the issue. From the link in the last comment it looks like no accelerated decode on the A380 even with i915 driver? that can't be right...
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There was a lot of hubbub earlier about the HuC code only being maintained for i915, with its functionality being rolled into some other component for DG3 that would work across both i915 and xe. Part of me wants to get my hands on an Arc A770 I loaned to a friend and try it in my Blackbird this week, but I’d love to hear about somebody running it successfully before evicting the W6600 that’s quietly worked for me in the past year.
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