Intel Xe SR-IOV support status

From: Marcello Sylvester Bauer
Date: Mon Jun 30 2025 - 07:47:59 EST


Hi,

Starting with Tiger Lake, support for GVT-g was discontinued in favor of SR-IOV for graphics virtualization[1]. Currently, the upstream Xe drivers only support SR-IOV on Panther Lake. The table below summarizes the current state based on the .has_sriov flag.

| Intel Gen | drm-xe-next[2] | xe-for-CI[2] | intel lts i915[3] |
| --------- | -------------- | ------------ | ----------------- |
| TGL | no | no | v5.15 |
| ADL/RPL | no | yes (debug) | v5.15 |
| MTL | no | no | v6.1 |
| ARL | no | no | no |
| PTL | v6.13.1 | yes | no |

Interestingly, the xe/topic/xe-for-CI testing branch only covers SR-IOV testing on the ADL platform and not the MTL or ARL platforms.

Is there a reason why SR-IOV has not yet been enabled on the other platforms? Are there any plans or timeline for adding support for them?

Kind regards,
Marcello
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[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000058558/graphics.html
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe
[3] https://github.com/intel/linux-intel-lts
[4] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/603316/

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