Earlier this month I famous that Intel’s open-source Linux graphics driver engineers had begun engaged on the OpenGL and Vulkan Mesa driver help for Xe 2 graphics as to be discovered with Lunar Lake “LNL” processors. Since then the preliminary {hardware} enablement work has solely continued heating up.
Along with the Xe2 DRM kernel driver work taking place concurrently, extra of the Mesa graphics driver bring-up has been taking place. This Xe2 merge request search exhibits a few of the at the moment lively endeavors for enabling Intel Xe2 graphics throughout the Mesa user-space code.
This merge request particularly outlines a few of the identified stipulations wanted for the Lunar Lake platform help earlier than the brand new {hardware} PCI IDs might be added. These IDs additionally will not be added till the Linux kernel driver help has additionally been upstreamed.
It is good seeing this Intel ANV Vulkan driver and Iris Gallium3D/OpenGL driver code for Xe2 / Lunar Lake coming collectively so early with this being Intel’s 2025 consumer platform. This Intel Xe2 driver code may come into play for the Intel Arc Graphics Battlemage discrete GPUs too because the successor to DG2/Alchemist.
