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Intel Readies Big Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17: Multi-Device Prep, SR-IOV, WCL


Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern 'Xe' kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle

The latest additions for the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver being submitted for Linux 6.17 includes: - Preparations for multi-device support. - In addition to some multi-device prep changes, another Project Battlematrix goal is on improved virtualization support and around Intel graphics SR-IOV. Simply put, today's batch of Intel Xe driver material is the heaviest I've seen in quite a number of months (or perhaps even years) with a lot of work included.

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