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Intel Linux Driver Finally Dropping The Experimental Flag For Original DG1 Graphics
Intel's original DG1 discrete GPU was principally a development vehicle on the path to DG2/Alchemist
It did appear with the Iris Xe Max laptop dGPU in very few configurations but surprisingly it's taken until now where the Intel Linux graphics driver is set to remove the experimental "force_probe" flag on these pre-Alchemist discrete GPUs. Once DG2/Alchemist appeared, DG1 largely became an afterthought to the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver developers. The "force_probe" module parameter is used during the early hardware bring-up phase by the Intel developers while the support is still treated as experimental to avoid the driver loading by default to avoid potential issues in that early hardware support.
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