Linux 6.8 Released As Stable With New Intel Xe Graphics Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.8 Released As Stable With New Intel Xe Graphics Driver

Linus Torvalds has gone ahead and released Linux 6.8 as stable today rather than drawing this cycle into overtime...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Released

[quaz0r]

what is needed to try the new intel xe driver? do i need to change my mesa config or wait for the next version of mesa?

[dlq84]

what is needed to try the new intel xe driver? do i need to change my mesa config or wait for the next version of mesa?

Not sure how up to date it is but according to this you need to set a kernel boot param, mesa already has support.

https://docs.kernel.org/gpu/rfc/xe.html

[TNZfr]

« Linux 6.8 is what will be powering the likes of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Fedora 40, and other upcoming Linux distribution releases. »
Meaning Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ?

[avis]

Fedora 38 and 39 will both include it in 2-3 weeks. Fedora doesn't stick to any particular kernel releases such as LTS.

Again, I'm waiting for .4 or .5 release before I install/try it. Others are welcome to debug it all they want.

A full changelog is yet to be published: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.8

[hartree]

what is needed to try the new intel xe driver? do i need to change my mesa config or wait for the next version of mesa?

Mesa 24.0.2 compiled with -Dintel-xe-kmd=enabled works in my testing, newest git builds seem to break the driver.

[anarki2]

bcachefs tests when? ^^

[mrg666]

Xe driver is not building for me with Ubuntu 24.04 daily. I just skipped it. I think I have the same problem Linus posted earlier. I thought it was fixed. The problem could be my doing too as this is a custom build on a daily OS. Anyway, It is running fine otherwise as I don't need Xe driver.

[makitso]

I am sorry but I am getting a bit discouraged with Canonical and their QA for the LTS release. All sub-versions of Ubuntu, running 22.04.4, and the 6.8 kernel seem to have problems. I have been looking at the Ubuntu forum and there are all sorts of problem being reported with the 6.8 kernel.

I now have three laptops that have serious problems with this kernel:
Thinkpad T510 hangs with 22.04 and the 6.8 kernel-- had to revert to 6.5 kernel

Dell XPS 15 Series 7530 (my wife’s laptop) will not boot with this kernel – screen flicker with the Luks encrypted /home partition. Reveted to 6.5 kernel.

Dell XPS 15 one year old 9530 will not run Virtual Box on the 6.8 kernel – reverted to 6.5