TapTechNews May 13th news, according to foreign media Phoronix, recently, netizen Vladimir Smirnov successfully ran the Intel Xe A750 graphics card on his Arm architecture platform.
TapTechNews note: Intel's discrete graphics card evolved from integrated graphics cards, which has accumulated a lot of features closely related to the x86 architecture in the long-used 'i915' Linux kernel driver.
This makes it difficult for Intel discrete graphics cards using the 'i915' driver to be used on non-x86 architectures; the new Xe driver separates the code from the x86 architecture, improving the availability of Intel discrete graphics cards on non-x86 instruction sets.
Vladimir Smirnov is a Google site reliability engineer who owns an Arm architecture Ampere Altra processor platform based on the Altsys ALTRAD8UD-1L2T motherboard.
Smirnov successfully achieved rendering on this platform with the Xe A750 graphics card. Although the Xe driver has made some progress in non-x86 compatibility, it has still required a lot of effort.
This engineer compiled an unreleased version of the Xe kernel driver and made some modifications, eventually successfully running the 'DOOM3' game on the Intel graphics card:
Although the rendering speed of the Xe A750 graphics card on the Arm platform is not fast, Vladimir Smirnov has still taken a critical step forward.