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Preemption Support Being Tackled For Adreno 700 Series With Linux MSM DRM Driver
For improving the open-source graphics driver support for Qualcomm Adreno 700 series hardware such as what's found in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and other SoCs, preemption support is finally being tackled.
This also makes use of a new "skipsaverestore" feature for faster L1 per-bin preemption by allowing the skipping of saving/restoring state and relying on the user-space driver code to restore registers. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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