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Rockchip NPU Driver "Rocket" Expected By Linux 6.18, Mesa 25.3 Brings User-Space Code


The open-source, reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU driver 'Rocket' developed by Tomeu Vizoso will soon be in the mainline kernel

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