Intel’s Matthew Brost explains more in the driver submission: Instead, devs can focus solely on newer, modern hardware instead.
Starting anew frees Intel devs from needing to carry the baggage that comes from supporting old hardware that old. Though under active development at present, Intel say the new driver will be production-ready this year.īut why build a new Intel graphics driver at all? Isn’t the existing one good enough?Īs Phoronix remark, the roots of the current Intel i915 DRM kernel graphics driver go back twenty years ago. It will support Intel’s 11th gen integrated graphics and newer, as well as discrete Intel Xe graphics cards. The new Intel Xe kernel graphics driver was announced before Christmas. Intel is building a brand-new graphics driver for Linux.
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