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Intel Xe Driver Preps Additional Changes For Linux 6.16

Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 29 April 2025 at 06:14 AM EDT. Add A Comment
On top of the Intel Xe driver changes already queued in DRM-Next for the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window, an additional set of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes were mailed out yesterday.

This latest round of Intel Xe driver changes for Linux 6.16 mostly amounts to bug fixes. Not too particularly exciting but at least it's on top of feature code already queued like the fan speed reporting for Linux 6.16:
"- Do not queue unneeded terminations from debugfs
- Fix out-of-bound while enabling engine activity stats
- Use GT oriented message to report engine activity error
- Some fault-injection additions
- Fix an error pointer dereference
- Fix capture of steering registers
- Use the steering flag when printing registers
- Cache DSS info when creating capture register list
- Backup VRAM in PM notifier instead of in the suspend / freeze callbacks
- Fix CFI violation when accessing sysfs files
- Fix kernel version docs for temperature and fan speed
- Add devcoredump chunking
- Update xe_ttm_access_memory to use GPU for non-visible access
- Abort printing coredump in VM printer output if full
- Resolve a possible circular locking dependency
- Don't support EU stall on SRIOV VF
- Drop force_alloc from xe_bo_evict in selftests"

The full list of Intel Xe driver patches for the week can be found via this pull request on its way to DRM-Next.

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