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Intel Battlemage OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Enabled By Default For Linux


Now that Linux 6.12 will enable Intel Battlemage and Lunar Lake graphics by default for the out-of-the-box kernel graphics driver support, the user-space Intel Mesa drivers with Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan are moving ahead to enable their support out-of-the-box too

Now that Linux 6.12 will enable Intel Battlemage and Lunar Lake graphics by default for the out-of-the-box kernel graphics driver support, the user-space Intel Mesa drivers with Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan are moving ahead to enable their support out-of-the-box too. This patch merged on Monday to Mesa 24.3-devel enables the initial Intel Battlemage G21 graphics cards without requiring the "INTEL_FORCE_PROBE" override. In the Mesa merge request promoting the Battlemage graphics to being enabled by default, a comment noted:"gnome, firefox, few sample VK and OpenGL applications working fine" Thus minimal insight into the Battlemage Linux support ahead of launch...

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