Starlabs - Starbook mk VI intel

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Here another HCL report for Starbook mk VI intel from Starlabs

Remarks

Kernel 6 required

I had issues at first when I installed Qubesos with kernel 5th serie and most of them were solved upgrading to 6th kernel (reported by other HCL).

Lack of GPU virtualization

The main remaining issue is lack of GPU support - The CPU is not sufficient even for displaying a 720p video at a comfortable refresh rate, at full-speed fan.
I thought of making graphics virtualization work to share a bit of GPU power with some App VMs.
I tried hard to make SR-IOV from 12th gen intel cpu work with Xen but never succeeded.
(Xorg.0.log - AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable)

Mouse hangs under high load

Another issue is the mouse refresh rate slowing down under high load (starting heavy App VM for example).

Previous HCL for this device :

Attachments

---
layout:
  'hcl'
type:
  'laptop'
hvm:
  'yes'
iommu:
  'yes'
slat:
  'yes'
tpm:
  'unknown'
remap:
  'yes'
brand: |
  Star Labs
model: |
  StarBook
bios: |
  8.31
cpu: |
  12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1260P
cpu-short: |
  FIXME
chipset: |
  Intel Corporation Device [8086:4621] (rev 02)
chipset-short: |
  FIXME
gpu: |
  Intel Corporation Device [8086:46a6] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  
gpu-short: |
  FIXME
network: |
  Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz (rev 1a)
memory: |
  65379
scsi: |

usb: |
  1
versions:

- works:
    'FIXME:yes|no|partial'
  qubes: |
    R4.1
  xen: |
    4.14.5
  kernel: |
    6.3.2-1
  remark: |
    FIXME
  credit: |
    FIXAUTHOR
  link: |
    FIXLINK

---

Qubes-HCL-Star_Labs-StarBook-20230615-233045.cpio.gz (7.9 KB)

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Thank you @distopia for your HCL report, which is online now!

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TLDR: GPU issues with Starlabs MK-VI intel => upgrade to 4.2 and coreboot 8.99 !
GPU issues with another i7-12th => try upgrade to 4.2.

New HCL report after upgrading to 4.2 and coreboot bios to 8.99, the gpu is now recognized and seems to work much better :

layout:
  'hcl'
type:
  'Laptop'
hvm:
  'yes'
iommu:
  'yes'
slat:
  'yes'
tpm:
  '2.0'
remap:
  'yes'
brand: |
  Star Labs
model: |
  StarBook
bios: |
  8.99
cpu: |
  12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1260P
cpu-short: |
  FIXME
chipset: |
  Intel Corporation Device [8086:4621] (rev 02)
chipset-short: |
  FIXME
gpu: |
  Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:46a6] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  
gpu-short: |
  FIXME
network: |
  Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz [8086:2725] (rev 1a)
memory: |
  65377
scsi: |

usb: |
  1
certified:
  'no'
versions:
  - works:
      'FIXME:yes|no|partial'
    qubes: |
      R4.2.0
    xen: |
      4.17.2
    kernel: |
      6.6.2-1
    remark: |
      FIXME
    credit: |
      FIXAUTHOR
    link: |
      FIXLINK

On 4.1 (fedora 32 kernels - coreboot bios 8.31), GPU acceleration seemed not provided in AppVM, leading to low image rates videos and no chance to launch 3d a game. I didn’t have time yet to try all use cases which I tested out in 4.1 but videos seem much faster now !

I’ll probably dig deeper again in GPU virtualization

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@distopia Thanks for the HCL report. I just submitted a pull request with it.

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