Intel "Input Output Manager" Linux Driver Coming For Tiger Lake

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel "Input Output Manager" Linux Driver Coming For Tiger Lake

While Intel's open-source engineers have been working on Tiger Lake enablement for Linux going back roughly a year with many kernel patches spanning the different areas over numerous kernel releases, which aligns with Intel's ongoing cadence of ensuring good Linux hardware support at launch even for consumer hardware, there have been a few stragglers in the Linux bring-up for Tiger Lake...

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[wizard69]

It will be real interesting to see if Tiger Lake can compete. Of course TB support is a big win for many but power draw vs performance is probably the bigger concern.

[Guest]

Tigerlake is exciting! Although I'd probably wait until hardware accelerated AV1 encode is available on Intel iGPU before upgrading.