Intel adds support for Rocket Lake-S in its Linux drivers, confirms compatibility with 400 and 500 Series

Later this year Intel will launch Rocket Lake-S, its 11th. Generation of desktop processors, and is already preparing for launch incorporatingo Driver support for your new integrated Gen12 based on the Xe architecture.

To support these new processors, Intel reused quite a bit of Tiger Lake-U code, since they will use the same type of integrated and therefore it is not necessary to make many modifications. Some differences that the integrated RL-S will have compared to that of TL-U are the use of memory, and a third DPLL to be able to use three monitors, something that is generally not used in laptops but on the desktop.

The update also revealed compatibility with 400 Series chipsets, something we already knew thanks to Gigabyte, and the existence of new 500 Series chipsets, from which not much has been leaked yet. Possibly these chipsets incorporate support for USB 4.0, Thunderbolt 4 and PCI-E 4.0, technologies that the 400 Series chipsets announced last week do not yet support, although this is only speculation.

According to Phoronix, the idea of ​​Intel is to get to put all these changes in the Kernel 5.8 of Linux to already have support when the new processors come to market, something that we have seen in several previous generations.

Are you eager to see what Intel brings with Rocket Lake-S?

Source: WCCFTech