Intel Lunar Lake "Xe2" Graphics Firmware Upstreamed For Xe Linux Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Lunar Lake "Xe2" Graphics Firmware Upstreamed For Xe Linux Driver

Intel is upstreaming the necessary Lunar Lake "LNL" graphics firmware nice and early to linux-firmware.git for their "Xe2" integrated graphics...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Lunar-Lake-Graphics-FW

[pong]

I'm sad they still haven't done anything to remedy the missing ASPM / low power near-idle functional power conservation for ARC on LINUX to the extent it works for MSW, or exposed / documented useful FAN / clock / temperature controls & monitoring for LINUX that has been working for over 1 year in MSW. Or SR-IOV support.

On the one hand they support LINUX by doing stuff like this yet can't apparently be bothered in almost two years to write a page of documentation and / or code to even make basic power / thermal management & monitoring work?

[ownaginatious]

I'm sad they still haven't done anything to remedy the missing ASPM / low power near-idle functional power conservation for ARC on LINUX to the extent it works for MSW, or exposed / documented useful FAN / clock / temperature controls & monitoring for LINUX that has been working for over 1 year in MSW. Or SR-IOV support.

On the one hand they support LINUX by doing stuff like this yet can't apparently be bothered in almost two years to write a page of documentation and / or code to even make basic power / thermal management & monitoring work?

If it makes you feel any better: I recently picked up and returned a Sparkle Intel A310 GPU. The fan would constantly ramp up and drop off at about a 2 second interval immediately upon booting regardless of whether the system was sitting in the BIOS or fully booted. I thought it was related to a lack of Linux tuning support, but after asking online, apparently this is the case with Windows too for a ton of Intel cards.

So sounds like the power management just sucks in general.