Earlier this month Intel Linux graphics driver engineers began posting the initial Intel Xe3P graphics enablement code with a focus on the integrated graphics to be found with Nova Lake. Xe3P will also later be found in Intel discrete graphics cards like Crescent Island and more. That very early Intel Xe3P code is now expected to be merged as part of the Linux 6.19 kernel as what will be the first Linux kernel release of 2026.
Sent out today was the first drm-xe-next pull request of new material being readied for that Linux 6.19 kernel cycle, with the merge window happening in December and then the stable kernel around February of 2026.
This first of several pull requests ahead of Linux 6.19 includes a redesign to the SR-IOV VF migration recovery code, new DebugFS interfaces around SR-IOV, always exposing VRAM provisioning data for discrete GPUs, pinning of peer-to-peer (P2P) DMA-BUFs, user/kernel vRAM partitioning, and the initial Xe3P support.
Again that Xe3P support for Linux 6.19 is just the very preliminary code and with a focus on Nova Lake. With Linux 7.0 and later follow-on kernel versions you can expect continued enablement work for the exciting Intel Xe3P graphics over 2026. Xe3P is the higher performance variant of the Xe3 architecture compared to the integrated Xe3 graphics already enabled in the mainline Linux kernel for Panther Lake.
This pull has the initial set of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver patches now heading to DRM-Next in queuing ahead of Linux 6.19.
