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Panthor Open-Source Driver To Support Many More Arm Mali GPUs In Linux 6.18


The open-source Panthor Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver providing the modern kernel graphics driver support for recent Arm Mali GPUs will be supporting a number of additional GPU models with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year.

Sent out today was the newest batch of "drm-misc-next" changes to queue in DRM-Next until the Linux 6.18 merge window kicks off around early October. Nice seeing the newer 5th Gen Mali graphics seeing mainline kernel support like the Mali-G725/G925 premium offerings that launched last year. This enablement work was previously covered on Phoronix within Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver.

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