Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has been extended to Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers.
Wildcat Lake is believed to be the successor to Alder Lake N for next-gen low-power devices. Wildcat Lake won’t be as powerful as upcoming Panther Lake SoCs but in any event the Linux support is being squared away ahead of launch.
On the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver side that support is going into the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel. Today the Intel ANV and Iris driver support for Wildcat Lake “WCL” was merged to Mesa 25.3-devel Git and will also be back-ported to the stable Mesa 25.1 and pending Mesa 25.2 branches.
This Mesa merge request is what landed that Mesa driver support today for Wildcat Lake. Wildcat Lake is Xe3 graphics like Panther Lake and largely following the same driver code paths albeit won’t be as performant as Panther Lake. Wildcat Lake also lacks hardware ray-tracing support. 0xfd80 and 0xfd81 are the initially added graphics PCI device IDs for the integrated graphics with Wildcat Lake.
