Panfrost's Stewardship Changes and Xorg Support for Old Hardware is Improved
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Passing the reins on Panfrost
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver.
It’s been a wild ride.
In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form Panfrost.
In 2019, I joined Collabora to accelerate work on the driver stack. The initial goal was to run GNOME on a Mali-T860 Chromebook.
Huge success.
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I’m still alive. I plan to continue working on Mesa drivers for a long time, including the common infrastructure upon which Panfrost relies. And I’ll still send the odd Panfrost patch now and then. That said, my focus will shift.
I’m not ready to announce what’s in store yet… but maybe you can read between the lines!
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xf86-video-neomagic 1.3.1
This driver provides Xorg support for the Neomagic chipsets that were commonly used in laptops in the second half of the 1990's.
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xf86-video-savage 2.4.0