Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Will No Longer Warn Over Using Xe2 Graphics

With Linux 6.12 the Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics are being enabled by default for out-of-the-box support with Intel's next-gen Xe2 graphics. Over in user-space the Intel OpenGL and Vulkan driver code has also begun enabling Xe2 graphics by default for use when running on Linux 6.12+. In Mesa besides no longer being hidden by the force probe option, a warning is now removed so users aren't told about unsupported Vulkan support when using Xe2 hardware.

Separate to the PCI ID device handling in Mesa, there's a warning in the Intel open-source ANV Vulkan driver over "Vulkan not yet supported" when the graphics device version is too new. With a simple patch merged to Mesa 24.3-devel and marked for back-porting to the current Mesa 24.2 stable series, that check is modified so that version "20" graphics devices are no longer affected.

This patch is what gets the Xe2 graphics to bypass that Intel ANV Vulkan driver warning on Xe2 and is part of this merge request that further cleaned up the warning reporting around when hardware support is forced.

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are busy getting the Xe2 support over the finish line. The Intel Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake processors were announced this week and will begin shipping on 24 September. But with stable support not coming until Linux 6.12 that will be out as stable in November, early Core Ultra 200V laptop customers running Linux might run into troubles or be comfortable running Linux 6.12 Git. I'm pre-ordering a Lunar Lake laptop hopefully later today for being able to deliver Lunar Lake Linux results around the 24 September shipping date. (Unfortunately Intel hasn't offered any review hardware and thus buying the hardware retail to be able to deliver Linux support/performance data.) So stay tuned for that Intel Core Ultra Series 2 Linux testing. I am very eager to dive into the Linux testing both for the Xe2 graphics and much improved CPU cores... A lot of benchmarking ahead.