Intel today sent out their last batch of planned feature patches for their Xe kernel graphics driver of material intended for [1]Linux 6.19 .

Prior pull requests for the Intel graphics driver in Linux 6.19 included [2]landing Lunar Lake's CASF adaptive sharpening feature , [3]initial Crescent Island graphics card support , [4]initial Xe3P graphics code for Nova Lake , and various other changes.

Today's last batch of Xe feature patches for Linux 6.19 include introducing the "sriov_admin" sysfs tree for Arc Pro graphics cards, user-space support to limit the number of jobs per execution queue, continued SR-IOV work, and various other enhancements:

drm-xe-next-2025-11-14:

UAPI Changes:

- Limit number of jobs per exec queue

- Add sriov_admin sysfs tree

Driver Changes:

- Fix an uninitialized value

- Expose a residency counter through debugfs

- Workaround enabling and improvement

- More Crescent Island-specific support

- PAT entry dump improvement

- Inline gt_reset in the worker

- Synchronize GT reset with device unbind

- Do clean shutdown also when using fl

- Fix serialization on burst of unbinds

- Pagefault Refactor

- Remove some unused code

- Avoid TOCTOU when montoring throttle reasons

- Add/extend workaround

- SRIOV migration work / plumbing

- Drop debug flag requirement for VF resource fixup

- Fix MTL vm_max_level

- Changes around TILE_ADDR_RANGE for platform compatibility

- Add runtime registers for GFX ver >= 35

- Kerneldoc fix

- Rework pcode error mapping

- Allow lockdown the PF

- Eliminate GUC code caching of some frequency values

- Improvements around forcewake referencing

See [5]this pull request for the full list of Xe feature patches on their way to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window in early December.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.19

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Adaptive-Sharpness-6.19

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Crescent-Island-Linux-619

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe3P-Starts-Linux-6.19

[5] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/aRcJOrisG2qPbucE@fedora/