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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Gets Patch To Help With Pixelflut Competition
A lot of Linux 6.15 intended patches by Intel for their kernel graphics driver have accumulated like enabling Xe3 'dirty rect' mode, SVM for the Xe driver, EU stall sampling, GuC power profile tuning, and more
Yesterday another drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. First, following recent patches around fixing multiple partial mmaps support within the Intel kernel driver, the I915_PARAM_MMAP_GTT_VERSION version has been bumped so user-space software like Mesa can easily know that there is suitable and working multiple partial mmaps support in good shape. This pull request preps those final Intel GT feature patches ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window.
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