i915-sriov-dkms VS e1000e-dkms-debian

The i915 driver doesn't have SR-IOV mainlined just yet, so you need to build a dkms module to get it going.

Then I tried the SR-IOV approach, installed the latest proxmox kernel which had this module already patched in and followed the instructions on the page but lspci | grep VGA reports 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-UP3 GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 0c) as before. This is the output of dmesg | grep i915:

For specifics: Up until last month, for gpu passthrough in Proxmox you have to use this random driver : https://github.com/strongtz/i915-sriov-dkms/tree/master With new Proxmox 8, it should have worked, but I still had to install this driver to even begin working on passthrough. Now I passed it to a UbuntuVM. Now Ubuntu by default doesn't support Alder lake iGPU completely. I installed kernel 6 somthing and the previous mentioned github driver. Now guess what, Plex doesn't support this GPU. This is the thread where I finally stopped. https://forums.plex.tv/t/movie-corruption-when-plex-decodes-4k-hdr/834529/45

There’s actually 2, theres the intel lts one, which i guess they did do something it just never amounted to anything, explained here:

https://github.com/intel/linux-intel-lts/issues/33

The ongoing development:

https://github.com/strongtz/i915-sriov-dkms

DKMS module from /u/strongtz github

SR-IOV does allow sharing the iGPU between a host and a guest but mainline linux doesn't support it yet. Intel is planning to mainline it later this year though and there's this dkms module if you know what you're doing and wanna try it.

dnf install -y @development-tools git dkms git clone https://github.com/strongtz/i915-sriov-dkms

Hello, everyone! I've been trying to pass through my dedicated graphics card on my optimus XPS 15 9510 for... quite a while. I was advised by [this blog post](https://lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/laptop-intel-nvidia-optimus-passthrough.lantian) that I need to pass through both my integrated graphics card and the dedicated graphics card in order to use the dedicated graphics card on the host, by my 11th Gen Intel i7-11800H doesn't support GVT-g, only SR-IOV. So, I installed [this kernel module](https://github.com/strongtz/i915-sriov-dkms) which allowed me to seemingly successfully create a VF and pass it through alongside my dedicated graphics card.

Hello, Our hardware vendor stopped selling the previous models of our standard desktops and laptops and possess sent the newest models in our latest purchase. Unfortunately, when installing Ubuntu on these machines the NICs are not recognized by the OS and need manual intervention to be updated, which I was able to get going by downloading the appropriate e1000e driver onto a USB and installing from that. Our standard workflow was provisioning the system with Foreman, and configuring it with ansible after the OS was installed. The manual steps now required between these steps have caused delays in setting up new equipment. Getting this hardware to allow PXE in the first place was a pain, I had to take the initrd.gz that foreman provides for the PXE environment, unpack it and replace the e1000e network driver with the very latest one to even allow the PXE process to start. But because the archive foreman uses for Ubuntu is the standard Canonical hosted Ubuntu archive, the OS is again missing that version of the driver and it needs to get updated again. Does anyone have recommendations on how to get around this? * I tried using HWE but it seems to not include this very latest version of e1000e so had no luck there * Could this process be included in the preseed file/provisioning template to handle the driver? * Our foreman install has Katello, but I have been having a hell of a time getting deb repos hosted. Even if that gets set up properly, it seems pretty‍ hacky again to insert a kernel with the correct driver version. (GPG issues? idk) * Foreman/Katello docs are lackluster and havent seen anything related to this kind of problem * FYI the desktop is a Dell Precision Tower 3650 and installing Ubuntu 18.04 I was hired as a Junior Sys Admin 2 years and now find myself as the sole IT in the company, this has been driving me nuts as my previous provisioning workflow was pretty solid but dont have anyone internal to turn to for advice. Would really appreciate any thoughts or ideas you all have or any resources you know of I can look into. Thanks! EDIT: Thanks for the replies everyone, I ended up getting this resolved by using DKMS. https://github.com/koljah-de/e1000e-dkms-debian was a good starting point, I built a deb from that and placed it on my tftp server. Then in Foreman's finish template I included the following lines: tftp -m binary tftp.example.com -c get e1000e-dkms.deb dpkg -i e1000e-dkms.deb That worked for me, after the installation process the NIC was usable. Plus this has the added benefit of not needing to tweak the drivers after upgrading the kernel at a later date.

Intel out-of-tree NIC drivers too; https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/ - But there are not many!

[1] qemu/hw/net/e1000.c [2] Devices supported by Linux's e1000 [3] e1000 from Intel