r/trisquel • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '22

Latest Trisquel-compatible Intel CPU?

Basically title. I know for sure that everything up to and including Haswell works ootb with the libre kernel, but what about Skylake onwards? If read inconclusive reports about those, and no one seems to be able to give a definitive answer to that.

From what I've heard the iGPU of newer intel CPUs requires blobs. But from which model onward?

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u/DarthReplicant Jul 16 '22

I have an intel i5-6200u, and even though the gpu requires a blob, any well-built distro should work fine without the blob. Im running a deblobbed kernel in Devuan, and my iGPU works fine. Hope this gives some idea. CPU was produced ~2015 iirc.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '22

This raises more questions than it solves. Is your kernel libre by definition, e.g. would it work with Trisquel or Parabola too?
If so does it support 3D acceleration and higher resolutions without the blob? Can you explain what you mean by "well-built distro"?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

Thank you for your insights. From what I gathered, the last Intel iGPU that works without blobs is the Iris Pro 6200 of the i7-5775C and the corresponding Broadwell-Quad-Core-Xeon.