Mesa 24.2.2 Enables Intel Lunar Lake & Battlemage Xe2 Graphics Out-Of-The-Box

Following the recently covered patches on Phoronix that enabled Intel Xe2 graphics out-of-the-box / by-default for Lunar Lake and Battlemage with the Mesa 24.3-devel Git code, Mesa 24.2.2 is out today in stable form that back-ports these Xe2 support changes.

Mesa 24.2.2 is out today with the necessary Intel OpenGL/Gallium3D (Iris) and Vulkan (ANV) driver changes for enabling Battlemage discrete graphics and Lunar Lake integrated graphics out-of-the-box without requiring any "force probe" overrides for enabling the support. This user-space Mesa code though is also contingent upon running Linux 6.12+ for the necessary kernel graphics driver support. Linux 6.12's merge window is opening in the next week or two while its stable release will be out in November -- a bit unfortunate for those planning to pickup a Core Ultra 200V Series laptop around 24 September.

In addition to the patches promoting Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default in Mesa 24.2.2, today's point release also carries the latest Mesa Git patch merged earlier today for no longer warning on Xe2 graphics.

As mentioned in other articles, I'm working to pre-order a laptop to be able to deliver Lunar Lake CPU and GPU support and performance benchmark results under Linux around the 24 September launch date.

Mesa 24.2.2 also has fixes to VUI encoding for Vulkan Video, NVIDIA Vulkan NVK driver fixes, and a variety of other random fixes collected the past two weeks.

More details on the Mesa 24.2.2 changes via the mailing list announcement.