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Big Improvements For Qualcomm GPU Driver With Linux 6.17 - Especially For Snapdragon X
Sent out today by longtime Freedreno/MSM open-source Qualcomm GPU driver developer Robin Clark are the main set of MSM kernel graphics/display driver updates targeting the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window
There are several exciting feature additions coming to this next kernel version for those relying on Qualcomm graphics capabilities. Long story short, with Linux 6.17 the graphics performance will hopefully be nicely improved thanks to the speedbin functionality now in place. The MSM driver changes for Linux 6.17 also now provide a single source of truth for Universal Bandwidth Compression (UBWC) configuration handling, further decoupling between the GPU and KMS code, SM8750 support in the DPU and DSI and MDSS code, and various fixes.
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