Not specifically, if there's a new chipset or southbridge it may require kernel driver update (..perhaps as simple as new PCI IDs) or a new driver entirely, but

Not specifically, if there's a new chipset or southbridge it may require kernel driver update (..perhaps as simple as new PCI IDs) or a new driver entirely, but similarly those changes are upstreamed rather quickly to increase the change of landing in a stable release. AMD and Intel engineers have hardware quite early to work on this, long before the consumer product ships.