Linux 7.2 To Enable SR-IOV Support For Intel Nova Lake's Xe3P Graphics

Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 21 May 2026 at 03:22 PM EDT. 4 Comments
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Open-source Intel software engineers today sent out their latest round of Xe kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 7.2 merge window.

The DRM-Xe-Next patches for the week include a number of low-level code improvements. For end users nothing too exciting at large with just a lot of maintenance and other enhancements without direct and immediate user benefit. The one item worth noting from this pull request though is enabling SR-IOV support for Nova Lake integrated graphics virtualization.

A patch with today's pull request confirms SR-IOV works with Nova Lake's Xe3P integrated graphics. SR-IOV is enabled for both Nova Lake S and Nova Lake P parts with their integrated graphics on the Xe open-source driver.

Nova Lake with SR-IOV support


So yet another bit of excitement ahead of the much anticipated Nova Lake processors.

The list of patches in full for those interested can be found via this pull request.
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