Intel Mesa News Today

Tucked away within a merge to Mesa entitled, 'intel/genxml: Support importing, which cuts the overall xml file size almost in half' Intel Linux graphics driver engineers are slowly beginning to start work on the 'Xe2' graphics support to be found with Lunar Lake processors.

Intel open-source driver engineers have begun starting work on preparing the Linux graphics driver stack to ultimately handle Lunar Lake integrated graphics that is the generation following Arrow Lake.

Following a recent Intel Mesa driver improvement to yield ~10% better performance, another change is on the way that has the ability to boost the performance for at least one game by 12% and other games by smaller yields.

Intel's ANV open-source Vulkan driver has increased its instruction heap size to 2Gb in order to address a hang experienced with the game Overwatch while this is also likely to help other software/games moving forward.