[olug] Can these speedups be had on the same hardware using Linux.

[aric at omahax.com]

Why avoid the K?

> On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 12:43:50 AM Rob Townley wrote:
>> There are some things added to intel Sandy Bridge like "Quick Sync"
>> that can speed up transcoding from 2:52 to :22 -- drops 2:30 off the
>> time it takes to encode a 449MB 1080i source to H.264.
>> But it seems to require 3rd party software for windows.
>> Does Linux use that without the fuss?
>
> Decoding should more or less just work. As well as 3D acceleration (which
> is
> surprisingly BETTER THAN ANY OTHER GPU ON LINUX, including the highest-end
> AMD discrete cards). I've been using i5-2400 (avoid the K!) since around
> January 18th.
>
> I started with a Gigabyte board, but found out that its VT-d support was
> broken. Thanks to the well-publicised SATA glitch, I was able to get a
> full
> refund on it and switch to Intel DQ67SW. Much to my surprise, not only did
> VT-d work fine, but it even worked flawlessly passing through my Radeon
> 5850
> to a KVM (for Bitcoin mining). I had been told by many various KVM
> developers over the last few months that graphics passthrough wouldn't
> work,
> so this kindof took everyone by surprise... as far as I know, I am the
> only
> one to have ever succeeded at this (with KVM; Xen has had some beta-level
> support for a while).
>
> Note that 2.6.28+ does NOT work on the Gigabyte (but 2.6.27 does).
> I reported a bug, but it seems nobody else with a Gigabyte has bothered to
> adopt it since I returned mine.
>
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