Ahead of Intel Core Ultra “Panther Lake” laptops expected to be showcased in just over one week at CES in Las Vegas, new Xe3_LPD firmware binaries were upstreamed today to linux-firmware.git in getting ready that production-ready support for Intel Panther Lake on Linux.
Similar to Panther Lake’s new NPU getting ready for Linux with the firmware binaries now upstreamed, this Sunday there were new versions of the Xe3_LPD firmware pushed to the de facto repository for Linux firmware/microcode assets. This is presumably the new Intel graphics firmware that’s considered production-ready for the Panther Lake laptops expected to soon launch.
The new firmware drops included Xe3LPD DMC 2.33 and Xe3LPD_3002 DMC 2.28.
Now that these binaries are in linux-firmware.git, they will get picked up by Linux distribution vendors for easy distribution as part of the different “linux-firmware” packages shipped in Linux distributions.
The Intel Panther Lake Linux support appears to be in largely good shape if using Linux 6.18+ and Mesa 25.3+, at least from my external monitoring. We’ll know more about any support/feature caveats and the Linux performance of Panther Lake once being able to get my hands on Panther Lake laptop hardware in 2026.
