Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental and off-by-default. With today's Mesa 26.3-devel code, the Intel driver code across Nova Lake's S, U, H, and HX product families are considered stable and enabled by default.

With Linux 7.3 set to treat Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable and enabled by default, the Intel Mesa user-space driver code is following suit. Now that the Linux kernel is no longer requiring the "force_probe" requirement for Intel Nova Lake graphics support, neither is the separate force probe overrides for the Intel graphics driver code in Mesa.

This merge delivers that promotion for Intel Nova Lake S / U / H / HX in Mesa Git. The patch is also set to be back-ported to the current Mesa 26.2 stable series too.

The open-source Linux driver support is looking good ahead of the Intel Nova Lake processors launching in the months ahead.