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Google Enabling PowerVR Rogue GX6250 Open-Source Support With The MediaTek MT8173

Building off the PowerVR kernel driver merged in Linux 6.8 and PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa 24.0 that are both focused on Imagination's newer PowerVR Rogue architecture, Google engineers are working on enabling open-source driver support for the PowerVR Rogue GX6250 as found within the MediaTek MT8173 SoC.

Google's motivation for getting the PowerVR Rogue GX6250 working with the MediaTek MT8173 is due to their Chromebook interests and a number of devices running on this SoC. Chen-Yu Tsai of Google posted the patches today for enabling the PowerVR Rogue GX6250 support within the MT8173 SoC. Userspace was tested with Mesa 24.0.8 from Debian Trixie rebuilt with the powervr vulkan driver enabled."

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