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Fedora Linux Grappling With New vs. Old Intel Hardware Support For Compute Stack

Fedora is among the Linux distributions that package up the Intel Compute Runtime stack to make it easy to run OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero workloads on Intel graphics hardware via the distribution package manager and without having to jump through any extra hoops

Newer branches did significantly cut hardware support (for GPU Generations prior to the 12th), and the aim of this change is to do the leap of faith, and rebase intel-compute-runtime and intel-igc to the latest upstream releases. Apart from HW Support plane, it'll, over time, become problematic to keep the pieces working, as new kernels, headers, and compilers do break the suite on occasion, and older branches aren't getting fixes in these areas. This change is to propose a rebase of the entire suite to the latest upstream branches, undergoing an active development and adding support for new products."

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