Being merged for Mesa 24.3 to the Freedreno open-source Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver for Qualcomm Adreno GPUs is now supporting the Adreno 621 and 505 graphics processors.

With the open-source Adreno graphics driver stack [1]already on with the Adreno 700 series , these new A505 and A621 parts aren't too notable -- just deserving mention on Phoronix to help out any users that may have Qualcomm SoCs with said hardware.

The Adreno 505 support was [2]merged with just needing a one-line addition. The Adreno 505 is found within the Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 and 435 SoCs.

Merged yesterday was the [3]Adreno 621 initial support for this "baby A650 found in some peculiar SoCs." In the [4]merge request for the Adreno 621 support it was tested to be hitting 18~29 FPS within Minecraft...

Not exactly exciting unless you happen to have some SoCs with these old GPUs and are looking for open-source graphics driver support. Mesa 24.3 with these additions should debut as stable in the November timeframe.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adreno-700-MSM-Preemption

[2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=afb7b17fddca46945ef72be21d94c26478248cf3

[3] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=d94d15249863dc95070a5a6bafddcbddd2d0d71c

[4] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/30253