For going along with the Intel IVPU kernel accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel is the Intel NPU driver support in user-space. Released yesterday was the Intel NPU Driver 1.30 milestone for advancing the Intel NPU user-space support on Linux with this open-source support for Core Ultra SoCs.
Intel doesn’t list all of the changes of their Intel NPU driver user-space package updates, but in digging through the code there have been some build system enhancements. Intel NPU Driver 1.30 includes a CMake tweak making it easier for the upstream build system to build for openSUSE in RPM format. This goes along with a recent effort that began in late 2025 for offering Intel NPU support in openSUSE with the linux-npu-driver package.
There is also now an Android CMake file present in the upstream Intel linux-npu-driver package too.
Another change with the v1.30 release is that the mul_add network is added to the linux-npu-driver source repository. There are also updated Intel NPU firmware binaries with this version. Those updated Intel NPU firmware binaries have also been upstreamed already into linux-firmware.git.
The rest of the work in the v1.30 release appears to be mostly minor changes. This v1.30 driver package has been verified by Intel across Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, and Panther Lake platforms. Downloads and more details on the new release via GitHub.
