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Support for 1st/2nd/3rd gen? Support for 5th gen? #15

Open GizmoChicken opened 9 years ago

GizmoChicken commented 9 years ago

Some earlier materials mention that KVMGT supports “Intel® Processor Graphics built into 4th generation Intel® Core™ processors.” See page 7 of http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/f/f3/01x08b-KVMGT-a.pdf

I wonder, is having a 4th gen processor an absolute requirement for KVMGT, or would KVMGT possibly work with earlier Intel Core processors? If there is a reasonable chance that it will work, I'd like to test KVMGT on my current laptop, which has a 2nd gen Intel Core processor.

Also, is KVMGT support for 5th gen processors expected soon? If I'm required to upgrade from my current 2nd gen processor to test KVMGT, I'd prefer to upgrade directly to 5th gen rather than to 4th gen.

l1viathan commented 9 years ago

It's not a hard requirement for GVT-g(KVMGT & XenGT), only the current implementation status.

Supporting 1/2/3 generation is not yet planned, please don't expect that much :) However, we do work on supporting 5th (Broadwell), so it's safe to have a BDW for KVMGT, though it may take several months to achieve same quality as HSW.

Sorry for being a sales guy :)

comicfans commented 9 years ago

I wonder if the hardware requirement based on CPU or GPU ? is low end CPU with newer GPU (such as Celeron N3150 with Broadwell based GPU ) able to support KVMGT ?

l1viathan commented 9 years ago

Had a quick search of N3150, seems that it's a SoC. Currently SoC graphics is not officially supported by GVT-g project.