News Battlemage G21 GPU spotted in Intel oneAPI code update

[TechyIT223]

They are also releasing unoptimized and broken AAA PC ports which eats up a lot of VRAM as well.

 

[Metal Messiah.]

I just spotted these entries.

Intel's Lunar Lake iGPU Battlemage "Xe2" graphics architecture has seen new support for the display & audio via open-source Linux support patches, and Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates.

"hda: Add Intel BMG PCI ID and HDMI codec vid."

[GIT PULL] sound updates for 6.10-rc1 - Takashi Iwai

Initial display support for Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics. With Linux 6.10 there's now support for actually driving a display attached to the Xe2 integrated graphics with Lunar Lake.

This is the main pull request for the drm subsystems for 6.10.

[PULL] drm-intel-next - Rodrigo Vivi

i915/xe display:
- Lunar Lake display enabling, including cdclk and other refactors
- BIOS/VBT/opregion related refactor
- Digital port related refactor/clean-up
- Fix 2s boot time regression on DP panel replay init
- Remove duplication on audio enable/disable on SDVO and g4x+ DP
- Disable AuxCCS framebuffers if built for Xe
xe:
- improved error capture
- clean up some uAPI leftovers
- devcoredump update
- Add BMG mocs table
- Handle GSCCS ER interrupt
- Implement xe2- and GuC workarounds

 

[TechyIT223]

Good to see how fast Intel is putting effort into linux patches for an architecture which is almost a year away from launch. Great find BTW

 

[bit_user]

Good to see how fast Intel is putting effort into linux patches for an architecture which is almost a year away from launch. Great find BTW

FWIW, this is pretty standard for them. Their launch-day Linux support tends to be pretty solid.

AMD has been sorely lacking, in this area (i.e. for consumer CPUs), but is starting to catch up.

 

[Metal Messiah.]

Bu this time it appears that AMD is really catching up real fast though !

Unlike last few years which saw sluggish support from AMD, recently we have seen early support for AMD's CPU and GPU architectures in Linux, Mesa and other open-source patches.

The open-source MESA's RADV drivers on Linux already received enablement for AMD's upcoming "GFX12" RDNA 4 GPU architecture. There are also multiple features optimized for RDNA 4, in addition to the official AMDVLK support.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/29215

Some ROCm patches also added support for two SKU IDs, GFX1201 and GFX1200, which are supposed to be the upcoming Navi 48 and Navi 44 GPU dies for gaming.

Apart from the above entries, the RadeonSI OpenGL driver at Linux also saw initial support for RDNA 4 GPUs & its VCN5 hardware.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/29007

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2024-April/107802.html

 

[TechyIT223]

There you go AMD as well.

AMD has been sorely lacking, in this area (i.e. for consumer CPUs), but is starting to catch up

Looking at above patches it seems they'll be definitely faster than Intel this time haha. 😅