Linux 6.6 Etnaviv Driver Working On More NXP i.MX8MP Hardware

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.6 Etnaviv Driver Working On More NXP i.MX8MP Hardware

The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM driver for providing open-source graphics support for Vivante graphics IP has prepared a new set of improvements for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Etnaviv-Changes

[SteamPunker]

This should be particularly interesting for Librem 5 owners, right?

[creative]

SteamPunker

More than likely for those awful embedded touch screen systems that you see outside the doors of college classrooms and corporate conference rooms displaying fancy daily meeting schedules, room capacity, whose speaking etc. More components for IOT infrastructure in the corporate world.

The GPU is most likely used in some weird way for facial recognition, spacial and depth topography that type of stuff. Cartographic mapping of objects etc.

Outfits like Crestron comes to mind with this one.