The Loongson Direct Rendering Manager driver for handling the display controller on LS7A/LS2K SoCs is no longer orphaned with new Loongson engineers stepping up to maintain the code moving forward.
The Loongson DRM driver is for handling the display controller on various SoCs from this Chinese company while Vivante graphics IP is used for the 3D support, which in turn is supported by the Etnaviv open-source driver stack. The Loongson DRM driver had been marked an “orphan” with no upstream maintainers but fortunately a new crop of Loongson engineers are going to maintain the driver moving forward.
Loongson engineer Jianmin Lv posted to the dri-devel mailing list this week:
“I and Qianhai are GPU R&D engineers at Loongson, specializing in kernel driver development. We understand that the current Loongson GPU driver lacks dedicated maintenance resources because of some reasons.
As Loongson GPU driver developers, we have both the capability and the responsibility to continuously maintain the Loongson GPU driver, ensuring minimal impact on its users. After internal discussions, our team has decided to recommend me and Qianhai to take over the maintenance responsibilities, and recommend Huacai, Mingcong and Ruoyao to help to review.
And We’ll continue to maintain it for current supported chips and drive future updates according to chip support plan.”
Good to see them maintaining the driver as well as planning to support it with future Loongson hardware.
In case you missed my recent Loongson benchmarking, check it out for the fascinating LoongArch space on Linux.
