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Intel Begins Queuing Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.12

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Intel Linux graphics driver engineers today sent in their first batch of patches to DRM-Next of new material they are prepared to introduce with the upcoming [1]Linux 6.12 kernel cycle.

The Linux 6.12 merge window will open up mid-September and today the first of several drm-intel-next submissions were made to DRM-Next ahead of that deadline. Today's pull request is mostly a collection of different fixes along with continued work on Xe2 graphics both for Lunar Lake (LNL) and Battlemage (BMG) graphics cards. It's for Linux 6.12 where [2]we are hoping the Xe2 graphics will be fully-baked for both Lunar Lake and Battlemage. As of right now -- and with today's pull request -- the code is still treated as being experimental and requiring the "force_probe" override to enable.

As for today's Intel DRM-Next highlights they include:

- Type-C programming fix for MTL+

- Fix display clock workaround

- Fix DP LTTPR detection

- Calculate vblank delay more accurately

- Make vrr_{enabling,disabling}() usable outside intel_display.c

- FBC clean-up

- DP link-training fixes and clean-up

- Make I2C terminology more inclusive

- Make read-only array bw_gbps static const

- HDCP fixes and improvements

- DP VSC SDP fixes and clean-ups

- Fix opregion leak in Xe code

- Fix possible int overflow in skl_ddi_calculate_wrpll

- General display clean-ups and conversion towards intel_display

- On DP MST, Enable LT fallback for UHBR<->non-UHBR rates

- Add VRR condition for DPKGC Enablement

- Use backlight power constants

- Correct dual pps handling for MTL_PCH+

- Dump DSC HW state

- Replace double blank with single blank after comma

- Read display register timeout on BMG

Not too exciting for end-users directly but with HDCP fixes, Frame-Buffer Compression (FBC) fixes, and other items will help some, along with all of the ongoing Xe2/BMG enabling. See [3]this pull request for more details on these initial Intel kernel graphics driver changes slated for Linux 6.12.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.12

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-DRM-Next-Linux-6.12

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/ZruWsyTv3nzdArDk@intel.com/



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