Earlier this month Intel announced Crescent Island as a Xe3P graphics card with 160GB of vRAM optimized for AI inferencing at the enterprise scale. Crescent Island isn’t expected to begin sampling until H2’2026, but already for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel initial Crescent Island support is being submitted for the Xe kernel graphics driver.
Intel engineers continue working on the Xe3P support for Nova Lake as well as now enabling Crescent Island as another Xe3P based product. Linux 6.19 will introduce very early support for Xe3P with Nova Lake while now Crescent Island “CRI” platform support is being added too for this next kernel version.
This week’s drm-xe-next pull request has initial Crescent Island support. Like the Nova Lake support, it’s very preliminary and disabled by default. Over the coming kernel versions the Xe3P graphics driver support will continue to be further refined and more functionality added.
The Crescent Island support as part of this week’s pull request is just adding a single PCI device ID of 0x674C.
The pull request of this week’s drm-xe-next material for DRM-Next also includes other Xe3P patches, making DRM Panic support work on vRAM for displays, VF migration updates, and other changes.
The Linux 6.19 merge window will open up in early December while the stable kernel should be out in February. Again, expect more Intel Xe3P open-source graphics activity in succeeding kernel cycles with Nova Lake and Crescent Island not expected until at least the second half of 2026.
