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Panfrost update: A new kernel driver

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Tomeu Vizoso
Mar 6, 2019

Following two months of work to develop a new kernel driver for Midgard and Bifrost GPUs, the kernel side of Panfrost is now in a form close to be acceptable in the mainline Linux kernel. Panfrost is the latest effort to deliver a free and open source implementation of a driver for the newest versions of the Arm Mali family of GPUs.

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