Intel Submits Last Batch Of Xe Driver Feature Updates For Linux 6.19

Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 14 November 2025 at 09:10 AM EST. Add A Comment

Intel today sent out their last batch of planned feature patches for their Xe kernel graphics driver of material intended for Linux 6.19.

Prior pull requests for the Intel graphics driver in Linux 6.19 included landing Lunar Lake's CASF adaptive sharpening feature, initial Crescent Island graphics card support, initial Xe3P graphics code for Nova Lake, and various other changes.

Today's last batch of Xe feature patches for Linux 6.19 include introducing the "sriov_admin" sysfs tree for Arc Pro graphics cards, user-space support to limit the number of jobs per execution queue, continued SR-IOV work, and various other enhancements:

drm-xe-next-2025-11-14:
UAPI Changes:

- Limit number of jobs per exec queue
- Add sriov_admin sysfs tree

Driver Changes:

- Fix an uninitialized value
- Expose a residency counter through debugfs
- Workaround enabling and improvement
- More Crescent Island-specific support
- PAT entry dump improvement
- Inline gt_reset in the worker
- Synchronize GT reset with device unbind
- Do clean shutdown also when using fl
- Fix serialization on burst of unbinds
- Pagefault Refactor
- Remove some unused code
- Avoid TOCTOU when montoring throttle reasons
- Add/extend workaround
- SRIOV migration work / plumbing
- Drop debug flag requirement for VF resource fixup
- Fix MTL vm_max_level
- Changes around TILE_ADDR_RANGE for platform compatibility
- Add runtime registers for GFX ver >= 35
- Kerneldoc fix
- Rework pcode error mapping
- Allow lockdown the PF
- Eliminate GUC code caching of some frequency values
- Improvements around forcewake referencing

See this pull request for the full list of Xe feature patches on their way to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window in early December.