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Imagination PowerVR Driver With Linux 6.18 To Support RISC-V


Imagination's open-source PowerVR kernel graphics driver for a while has seen patches extending it to work on RISC-V given that some RISC-V hardware coming to market has featured PowerVR graphics IP

The Alibaba T-HEAD TH1520 is a quad-core Xuantie C910 RISC-V processor paired with Imagination BXM-4-64 PowerVR graphics. Along similar lines, sent out this weekend were the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree updates intended for Linux 6.18. This has been tested successfully with the likes of the Lichee Pi 4A single board computer and other hardware.

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