Sent out today to DRM-Next was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next patches for enhancing the various smaller Direct Rendering Manager drivers within the kernel. Included with this week’s update is supporting some additional Mali and Vivante hardware as well as continuing to enhance the in-kernel accelerator “accel” drivers.
On the accelerator driver front, the Intel IVPU driver for their NPUs has added user pointer “userptr” support. The user pointer support is for buffers allocated in user-space by an application that are then passed to the kernel for in this case used by the NPU. Over on the AMD Ryzen AI NPU driver side, the AMDXDNA driver adds new ioctl interfaces for resource and telemetry data.
New hardware support in today’s pull request include supporting the Mali GPU within the MediaTek MT8196 SoC. Separately, the Etnaviv driver has added support for the Vivante GC8000 Nano Ultra VIP r6205.
New panels enabled with this DRM-Next pull request ahead of Linux 6.19 includes the Samsung S6E3FC2X01 DDIC/AMS641RW, Synaptics TDDI series DSI, and TL121BVMS07-00 (IL79900A).
The full list of drm-misc-next patches for the week can be found via this pull request for this newest code working its way toward what will become the Linux 6.19 kernel.
