Intel Media Driver & VPL GPU Runtime 2026Q2 Updates Continue Prepping For Nova Lake Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 30 July 2026 at 05:38 AM EDT. Add A Comment Over the past few Intel VA-API Media Driver releases we have seen preparations made for Nova Lake video acceleration. …
… There are also a number of code hardening updates for this C driver with improved bounds checking for vBIOS parsing, various other boundary checks added, etc. The AMDKFD driver is also hardened too with CRIU boundary checking. …
… Those old GPU improvements again thanks to Valve's Timur Kristóf. amdgpu: - mmhub 4.2 update - DCN4.2 updates - DC CACP support - DMUB updates - PSR fixes - Replay fixes - Change system unbound wq with system dfl wq - GC 12.1 ip dump support - DCN4 fixes - DCN4.2 updates - DSC fixes - More DC KUNIT… …
… The updated drm-kmod port will work with FreeBSD 15.1 and onward. More details on the updated FreeBSD graphics driver port from the Linux kernel can be found via FreeBSDFoundation.org . …
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… Open-source developer Daniil Seliverstov worked out the DG2-specific GSC/MEI handling for the Xe driver with: "- add DG2 MEI GSC interface support - add HuC firmware parsing for GSC BPDT/CPD layout - improve HuC loading and authentication handling - add GSC register definitions and firmware ABI upd… …
… Today's pull is includes updates for the SMU 15 IP, various other SMU updates, refactoring Display Core DC stream validation, a performance regression fix for the classic Radeon DRM driver, a rework to the old GFX6 graphics IP thanks to Valve's Timur Kristóf as part of improving soft reset recovery… …
… There are also a number of WiFi drivers updated that are derived from the Linux 7.0 source tree, support for Intel Linear Address Space Separation LASS on AMD64, man page updates, and more. …
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