On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:28 PM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.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.
