Merged in time for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release is the merging of Vulkan driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics support that is notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
Merged on Monday for the open-source TURNIP Vulkan driver is the Adreno Gen 8 graphics support for the Snapdragon X2 Elite “Glymur” and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 “Kaanapali” SoCs. This goes along with the MSM kernel driver having upstreamed that hardware support for Linux 6.19. So with both Linux 6.19 and Mesa 26.0, accelerated graphics are ready to go for the new Snapdragon X2 laptops.
This new code for Mesa 26.0 builds off this merge from December laying out the initial Gen 8 graphics support as well as plumbing the Freedreno Gallium3D driver for OpenGL on this latest Qualcomm graphics IP.
Variable rate shading (VRS) is one of the features currently disabled by the TURNIP driver for this Gen 8 hardware as some issues are still being worked through. More details within this merge.
