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Tuning Intel Skylake and beyond for optimal performance and feature level support on Linux:

Note that on Skylake, Kabylake (and the now cancelled "Broxton") SKUs, functionality such as power saving, GPU scheduling and HDMI audio have been moved onto binary-only firmware, and as such, the GuC and the HuC blobs must be loaded at run-time to access this functionality.

Enabling GuC and HuC on Skylake and above requires a few extra parameters be passed to the kernel before boot.

Instructions provided for both Fedora and Ubuntu (including Debian):

Note that the firmware for these GPUs is often packaged by your distributor, and as such, you can confirm the firmware blob's availability by running:

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#pragma once
#include <stdexcept>
#include <string>
#include <cassert>
#include <cstdint>

#if !defined(GUID_DEFINED)
#define GUID_DEFINED
struct GUID {
	uint32_t Data1;

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These commands are based on a askubuntu answer http://askubuntu.com/a/581497
To install gcc-6 (gcc-6.1.1), I had to do more stuff as shown below.
USE THOSE COMMANDS AT YOUR OWN RISK. I SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING.
ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

If you are still reading let's carry on with the code.

sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get install build-essential software-properties-common -y && \
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y && \

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.PHONY: using-gcc using-gcc-static using-clang

using-gcc:
	g++-4.8 -o main-gcc -lasan -O -g -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer main.cpp && \
	ASAN_OPTIONS=symbolize=1 ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH=$(shell which llvm-symbolizer) ./main-gcc

using-gcc-static:
	g++-4.8 -o main-gcc-static -static-libstdc++ -static-libasan -O -g -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer main.cpp && \
	ASAN_OPTIONS=symbolize=1 ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH=$(shell which llvm-symbolizer) ./main-gcc-static