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Reverse-Engineered Vivante Driver Brings Improved Performance & Fixes For Linux 6.11
The Etnaviv kernel graphics driver that provides reverse-engineered open-source support for Vivante graphics (and NPU) IP has seen a fresh round of patches ready to go for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.11 cycle kicking off in mid-July.
Of the handful of patches for the Etnaviv Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver this cycle is one ot keep TS enabled on MMUv2 cores to yield better performance. The change is to not disable the Tile Status (TS) engine on MMUv2 cores when moving the linear window. Other Etnaviv work for Linux 6.11 includes fixing NPU clock gating with the NXP i.MX8MP that is also important for performance.
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