The first DRM-Misc-Next pull request was submitted this week to DRM-Next as new kernel graphics/display driver features to begin queuing for the [1]Linux 7.1 kernel that will release mid-year. Among the early code for DRM-Next are two new drivers.

The first new driver is the Verisilicon DC8200 display driver that initially is being used by the T-Head TH1520 RISC-V SoC for HDMI display output support. This display IP is also used by the StarFive JH7110 SoC too but that isn't yet completed for this initial driver at this time.

The other new driver is a Coreboot DRM driver for simple frame-buffer support. This Coreboot frame-buffer driver has been successfully tested with Wayland's Weston and the Linux frame-buffer console. This "corebootdrm" driver was developed by Thomas Zimmermann at SUSE.

There are also some open-source NVIDIA Nouveau driver improvements ready this week. The Nouveau driver is [2]ready with ZCULL support that goes along with now-merged ZCULL support to the NVK Vulkan driver for better performance. The Nouveau GSP code also now [3]supports the GA100 accelerator .

This week's pull also adds OLED panel type for eDP outputs to the AMDGPU driver, SANA5D65 LCD controller support to the atmel-hlcdc driver, DisplayPort output support for the Rockchip RK3576, and other minor driver changes. All the details via [4]this pull request .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+7.1

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-ZCULL-Merged

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-GSP-NVIDIA-GA100

[4] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20260226143615.GA47200@linux.fritz.box/