The open-source Panthor Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver providing the modern kernel graphics driver support for recent Arm Mali GPUs will be supporting a number of additional GPU models with the [1]Linux 6.18 kernel later this year.

Sent out today was the newest batch of "drm-misc-next" changes to queue in DRM-Next until the Linux 6.18 merge window kicks off around early October. Most notable this week is enabling support for additional Arm Mali GPUs within the Panthor driver code.

New support in Panthor with Linux 6.18 will include the Arm Mali G710, G510, G310, Gx15, Gx20, and Gx25 graphics processors. Nice seeing the newer 5th Gen Mali graphics seeing mainline kernel support like the Mali-G725/G925 premium offerings that launched last year. This enablement work was previously covered on Phoronix within [2]Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver .

The Panthor driver for Linux 6.18 is also seeing improved cache flushing.

In addition to the Panthor activity with this week's drm-misc-next pull, the GPUVM code is bringing madvise support to the Intel Xe driver, and the DRM bridge code now supports the Content Protection property. The Content Protection property is used for communicating the HDCP status for connectors.

More details on this week's drm-misc-next pathces via [3]this pull request .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.18

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Mali-G725-Friends-Panthor

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250821073822.GA45904@2a02-2454-fd5e-fd00-8f09-b5f-980b-a7ef.dyn6.pyur.net/T/#u