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Samsung Exynos 7870 Seeing New Open-Source Driver Activity For Linux 6.18


The Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa SoC released back in 2016 on a 14nm process and powered by eight Arm Cortex-53 cores and a Mali T830 GPU

The Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa SoC released back in 2016 on a 14nm process and powered by eight Arm Cortex-53 cores and a Mali T830 GPU. Submitted today via the drm-misc-next pull request to DRM-Next ahead of Linux 6.18 is the DSIM bridge driver support for the Exynos 7870. This work around the display support for the Exynos 7870 SoC has been ongoing the past few months by open-source developer Kaustabh Chakraborty.

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