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Fedora Stakeholders Talk Of Forking Intel's Compute Runtime To Maintain Older Hardware

With the Intel Graphics Compiler having dropped Ice Lake and older support and in turn the Intel Compute Runtime dropping Ice Lake and older to just focus on newer Intel graphics hardware support, Fedora packagers and other stakeholders have been grappling with how to handle the situation

But so far no firm commitment from any stakeholders willing to step up and maintain legacy packages for the Intel graphics compute stack for Ice Lake and prior. Plus let's face it there isn't too many OpenCL or Level Zero workloads that are really beneficial on aging Ice Lake or older Intel integrated graphics... So for now there's talk of offering legacy Intel graphics compute support on future Fedora releases but no firm action plan nor the volunteers/resources to really see it through.

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