Intel is also slow in upstreaming their SYCL implementation to LLVM upstream. So that there is still a very far way to go towards the pytorch variant that can use intel ARC GPU.
On Mon, 2023-09-11 at 12:47 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > So... > If you've watched our Dear Leader's talk, a prominent problem listed > was problems with new graphics cards. > > While he didn't elaborate, I assume it was about Intel Arc -- ie, new > DG2 > discrete GPUs. And the problem is, proper support didn't hit the > kernel > until after 6.1. You can kinda-sorta run on 6.1 by whitelisting it > by PCIe > ID on the kernel cmdline, and it even works (6.0 couldn't cope with > my > setup, 6.1 was ok), but such an intentional block doesn't suggest > it's > something wise for a normal user to do. > > I'm not sure if firmware shipped with Bookworm is good enough, either > (having grabbed a copy of the files much earlier, would need to > test). > > Of course, this wasn't Debian's fault. The group at Intel > responsible > for upstreaming kernel/etc bits was too slow, not providing drivers > until > after the hardware has already been shipping to regular non-NDAed > customers. > > But then, hardware makers do this all the time. Intel Arc just gives > a > more prominent reason to have an installer with backported > kernel+stuff. > > Before we go and bother the relevant folks (or maybe even do part of > the > work ourselves...), could someone name other pieces of hardware that > would > be wanted for Bookworm+½? > > > Meow?
