V3D DRM Driver Steps Towards Mainline Kernel, Renamed From VC5

[phoronix]

Phoronix: V3D DRM Driver Steps Towards Mainline Kernel, Renamed From VC5

The Broadcom VC5 driver stack is being renamed to V3D and developer Eric Anholt is looking at merging it into the mainline Linux kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Broadcom-V3D-For-Mainline

[xtf1]

I would confuse it with https://virgil3d.github.io/

[Faalagorn]

Also, does it have to be 3-letters? It could as well be called VC3D for example. On the other hand, we already have mesa names that are based on the "outdated" codenames, like i965, r600 or even radeonsi.