This is the best summary I could come up with:

Plus there’s new AMDGPU driver additions and other improvements with this pull, including the initial AMD color management code.

The Xe driver is a clean-sheet design (besides shared display code with i915) and thus able to better cater to modern Intel graphics architecture as well as making use of modern kernel interfaces and more without any legacy baggage in terms of maintaining user-space API or having to worry about older generations of Intel hardware.

Xe should ultimately provide better performance, support for Intel discrete graphics on non-x86/x86_64 architectures, and other features to come.

The latest Mesa code is already adapted for Iris Gallium3D and ANV Vulkan to make use of the Xe kernel driver.

The AMD color management properties code is not compiled by default but is being upstreamed now to ease development and make it easier for SteamOS and the Steam Deck to leverage.

The full list of DRM feature updates for the Linux 6.8 merge window can be found via this pull.

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