Comment by sirn

My rough mental Intel driver matrix is something like this (might not be entirely correct):

    iGPU:

    | Arch                                         | KMD     | DRI (Mesa)  | Vulkan (Mesa)  | VA         |
    | -------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------------- | ---------- |
    | <  Broadwater (Gen4)                         | i915    | i915        | N/A            | N/A        |
    | >= Broadwater (Gen4), < Westmere             | i915    | i915        | N/A            | i965       |
    | >= Westmere (Gen5), < Haswell                | i915    | crocus      | N/A            | i965       |
    | >= Haswell (Gen7), < Broadwell               | i915    | crocus      | hasvk          | i965       |
    | == Broadwell (Gen8)                          | i915    | iris/crocus | anv/hasvk      | iHD        |
    | >= Skylake (Gen9), < Tiger Lake              | i915    | iris        | anv            | iHD        |
    | >= Tiger Lake (Xe/Gen12), < Lunar Lake (Xe2) | i915/xe | iris        | anv            | iHD/libvpl |
    | >= Lunar Lake (Xe2)                          | xe      | iris        | anv            | iHD/libvpl |

    dGPU:

    | Arch                                  | KMD     | DRI (Mesa)  | Vulkan (Mesa)  | VA         |
    | ------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------------- | ---------- |
    | >= DG1 (Xe/Gen12.1), Battlemage (Xe2) | i915/xe | iris        | anv            | iHD/libvpl |
    | >= Battlemage (Xe2)                   | xe      | iris        | anv            | iHD/libvpl |

Usually, KMD/DRI/Vulkan should work as-is if you use a reasonably recent kernel and mesa, but video acceleration sure is a bit of a mess.