Subsequent week in DRM-Subsequent will hopefully see the patch selling Intel Meteor Lake graphics to secure in time for the upcoming Linux 6.7 merge window. Forward of that an i915 drm-intel-next pull request on Friday despatched out extra Meteor Lake patches whereas concurrently engaged on extra driver enablement code for Lunar Lake.
This second batch of i915 characteristic updates for Linux 6.7 has extra bits round Meteor Lake in hoping to cross the edge subsequent week to take away the “i915.force_probe” requirement for Meteor Lake, which can successfully imply the motive force help is secure and production-ready for Linux 6.7 with these upcoming laptop computer processors.
There may be additionally enabling of latest Lunar Lake frame-buffer compression (FBC) options as a part of this pull together with different Lunar Lake “LNL” show help. Among the different work consists of preparations inside the i915 show code for permitting it to be re-used with the upcoming Xe DRM kernel driver. The Xe kernel driver continues to be labored on as Intel’s fashionable Direct Rendering Supervisor driver that is been in growth the previous two years. The Xe driver nonetheless is not being upstreamed for Linux 6.7 however extra of the preparations are getting ironed out and hopefully in ~6.8 or round there we’ll see or not it’s provided as an experimental choice for Tigerlake graphics and newer.
This pull additionally has numerous code clean-ups, documentation typo corrections, and a wide range of completely different fixes. See this pull request for extra particulars on the entire i915 driver adjustments submitted for the week.
