The Panfrost project continues to grow! Last week, initial PanVK support for V10 GPUs landed upstream in Mesa's main branch. This means that it's now possible to start kicking the tires on Vulkan with an open source driver on Arm Mali-G610 and Mali-G310 GPUs. Hooray!

This has been a team-effort, led by Boris Brezillon and supported by Rebecca McKeever, Mary Guillemard and Kostiantyn Shablia. Thanks a lot to all of you for your excellent work! We've also gotten support from ARM, so big thanks to them also!

However, note that this is very early support. Neither PanVK itself, nor the V10 support is what we consider production quality. Additionally, the driver also only exposes Vulkan 1.0 with a very minimal set of features, and is in no way conformant yet. As such, don't expect most applications to work out of the box. Some do, but many applications are likely to fail.

The team are working hard on adding features and fixing bugs, and we expect the situation to improve toward the end of the year. For more up-to-date details, please watch our upcoming talk about Panfrost at X.Org Developers Conference 2024!

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