Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen [1]Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental and off-by-default. With today's Mesa 26.3-devel code, the Intel driver code across Nova Lake's S, U, H, and HX product families are considered stable and enabled by default.

With [2]Linux 7.3 set to treat Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable and enabled by default, the Intel Mesa user-space driver code is following suit. Now that the Linux kernel is no longer requiring the "force_probe" requirement for Intel Nova Lake graphics support, neither is the separate force probe overrides for the Intel graphics driver code in Mesa.

[3]This merge delivers that promotion for Intel Nova Lake S / U / H / HX in Mesa Git. The patch is also set to be back-ported to the current Mesa 26.2 stable series too.

The open-source Linux driver support is looking good ahead of the Intel Nova Lake processors launching in the months ahead.



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

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Intel-NVL-S-Stable

[3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/bde9b9bea20d56cfbb21e3a1aafaec806d6d25ef