PowerVR Open-Source Vulkan Driver Preparing For New GPU Support
([Mesa] 4 Hours Ago
PowerVR New GPUs)
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The open-source Mesa [1]PowerVR "PVR" Vulkan driver has merged multi-architecture support as part of preparing to add support for newer Imagination GPUs.
Erik Faye-Lund led the work on refactoring the PVR driver for multi-arch support as prep work for being able to add new GPU hardware support to this PowerVR driver. More than three dozen patches refactored the PowerVR Vulkan driver in preparing to tack on support for newer GPU architecture(s) moving forward.
"Here's patches to the powervr driver to carve out space for multi-arch support, so we can add support for newer GPUs."
More details for those interested via [2]this merge request that landed last weekend into Mesa 26.0-devel Git.
[3]
The Mesa PowerVR driver to date has been predominantly focused on the A-Series AXE-1-16M as well as the B-Series BXS-4-64 / BXM-4-64 / BXM-4-64 GPUs. There is also partial support for the Series 6XT GX6250. That open-source PowerVR graphics driver support has been focused on the B-Series / A-Series but there is also the C / D / E Series too. Presumably that is the newer Imagination PowerVR architecture support being prepped for now with this open-source Linux graphics driver stack. So far no merge requests have been opened for new GPU support besides this multi-arch code refactoring work.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/PowerVR
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38922
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2025&image=powervr_family_lrg
Erik Faye-Lund led the work on refactoring the PVR driver for multi-arch support as prep work for being able to add new GPU hardware support to this PowerVR driver. More than three dozen patches refactored the PowerVR Vulkan driver in preparing to tack on support for newer GPU architecture(s) moving forward.
"Here's patches to the powervr driver to carve out space for multi-arch support, so we can add support for newer GPUs."
More details for those interested via [2]this merge request that landed last weekend into Mesa 26.0-devel Git.
[3]
The Mesa PowerVR driver to date has been predominantly focused on the A-Series AXE-1-16M as well as the B-Series BXS-4-64 / BXM-4-64 / BXM-4-64 GPUs. There is also partial support for the Series 6XT GX6250. That open-source PowerVR graphics driver support has been focused on the B-Series / A-Series but there is also the C / D / E Series too. Presumably that is the newer Imagination PowerVR architecture support being prepped for now with this open-source Linux graphics driver stack. So far no merge requests have been opened for new GPU support besides this multi-arch code refactoring work.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/PowerVR
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38922
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2025&image=powervr_family_lrg