Ahead of Intel Core Ultra " [1]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 [2]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 [3]Xe3LPD DMC 2.33 and [4]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.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Panther+Lake

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panther-Lake-NPU-Firmware

[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=ae21ff2b63917452c99c97078caef640749dfe92

[4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=154800e885413bdf90b80b94e2e12f441be79fde