diff --git a/src/intel/dev/intel_device_info.c b/src/intel/dev/intel_device_info.c
index 22b6f64f9fe..1bca75ff63a 100644
--- a/src/intel/dev/intel_device_info.c
+++ b/src/intel/dev/intel_device_info.c
@@ -2003,6 +2003,8 @@ intel_i915_get_device_info_from_fd(int fd, struct intel_device_info *devinfo)
    intel_get_aperture_size(fd, &devinfo->aperture_bytes);
    get_context_param(fd, 0, I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_GTT_SIZE, &devinfo->gtt_size);
    devinfo->has_tiling_uapi = has_get_tiling(fd);
+   devinfo->has_caching_uapi =
+      devinfo->platform < INTEL_PLATFORM_DG2_START && !devinfo->has_local_mem;
 
    if (getparam(fd, I915_PARAM_MMAP_GTT_VERSION, &val))
       devinfo->has_mmap_offset = val >= 4;
diff --git a/src/intel/dev/intel_device_info.h b/src/intel/dev/intel_device_info.h
index 78ffc23bbb2..48ac149ab2c 100644
--- a/src/intel/dev/intel_device_info.h
+++ b/src/intel/dev/intel_device_info.h
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ struct intel_device_info
     */
    bool has_flat_ccs;
    bool has_aux_map;
+   bool has_caching_uapi;
    bool has_tiling_uapi;
    bool has_ray_tracing;
    bool has_ray_query;