Intel Graphics With Linux 6.8 To Add FDINFO Memory Stats, More Meteor Lake Workarounds

In addition to Intel preparing to merge their new Xe kernel graphics driver into the mainline kernel potentially for Linux 6.8, their existing open-source Intel kernel graphics driver code continues to be improved upon and receiving new features.

Sent out on Friday was the first batch of drm-intel-gt-next changes for the Linux 6.8 merge window. With this there is finally the code implementing FDINFO memory statistics printing for showing per-process vRAM usage reporting. This shows memory object utilization via this new DRM/driver-specific FDINFO interface.

This pull request also has more Intel Meteor Lake graphics workarounds, various workaround tweaks for DG2/Alchemist hardware, and random driver fixes.

There's also one new Arctic Sound M (ATS-M) device ID being added for Linux 6.8: 0x56C2. It's not yet clear what this new ATS-M device ID is for if it's a new product coming to market or just some different revision or so. It's being added to the list of Arctic Sound M150 IDs.

The full list of drm-intel-gt-next changes for this week can be found via this pull. More Intel DRM-Next GT changes are still expected ahead of the Linux 6.8 cycle kicking off in a few weeks.