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I was going to point out that Linux 6.8 seems on target to be shipping pretty decent powervr drivers, but yeah, probably a huge massive chunk of the magic is in the firmware blob, which is closed as heck as usual for this industry. Both drivers & boob very recently dropped: https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-Firmware-Blob

I think though they're finally realized trying to charge people for drivers has made them a hated name & gotten them no where. GMA500 is a long awful wound on everyone & held Intel back from being much better at embedded than they could have been. Powervr has been one of those living embodiments of the phrase "expensive chips without good drivers are just expensive sand", or however it goes. So now this stuff hypothetically is going to start to be broadly usable (only on Linux underimited architrctures I guess? Since it's mostly binary blobs?).




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