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| Linux 6.6 MSM DRM Driver Preps For New Hardware, Overhead Optimizations | Linux Kernel | 2023-08-23 |
| Mesa TURNIP Vulkan Driver Adds VirtIO GPU Support | Mesa | 2023-08-08 |
| Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series Graphics Get OpenGL 4.6 On Open-Source Driver | Mesa | 2023-06-02 |
| Linux 6.4 Preparing DRM Deadline Hints To Help Influence GPU Frequency/Performance | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-26 |
| MSM DRM Driver Adds Support For Newer Qualcomm Platforms With Linux 6.3 | Linux Kernel | 2023-01-31 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Now Allows OpenGL 4.5 For Adreno 600 Series GPUs | Mesa | 2022-11-02 |
| VirtGPU DRM Native Contexts Show Potential For Good VM Gaming Performance | Virtualization | 2022-10-11 |
| MSM DRM Driver Adds Adreno 619 Support With Linux 5.20 | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-11 |
| Qualcomm MSM Driver With Linux 5.19 Adds DSC, Preps For Mesa Driver Within A VM | Linux Kernel | 2022-05-15 |
| Linux 5.17 Prepares To Finally Support The Adreno 506, Other MSM DRM Changes | Hardware | 2021-12-29 |
| Google Is Successfully Using The Open-Source Qualcomm GL/VLK Drivers On Chromebooks | Mesa | 2021-09-16 |
| Many Interesting Talks On Deck For The X.Org Developers Conference 2021 | X.Org | 2021-08-04 |
| OpenGL Drivers In 2021 Still Sadly Benefit From Faking Their Driver Name / GPU | Mesa | 2021-07-30 |
| DMA-Fence Deadline Awareness Proposed To Help Ensure GPU Drivers Render On-Time | Linux Kernel | 2021-07-27 |
| MSM Adreno DRM Driver For Linux 5.10 Has DisplayPort, Per-Process Pagetables | Linux Kernel | 2020-09-28 |
| Freedreno Lands On-Disk Shader Cache Support In Mesa 20.2 | Mesa | 2020-06-27 |
| Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver Getting Support For Older Adreno Parts On Linux 5.5 | Hardware | 2019-11-06 |
| Igalia Is Working On "mediump" Support For Mesa To Help With OpenGL ES Performance | Mesa | 2019-10-03 |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Is Back To Seeing Activity | Mesa | 2019-09-27 |
| MSM DRM Adding Snapdragon 835 / Adreno 540 Support In Linux 5.3 | Hardware | 2019-06-26 |
| Google's New Graphics Driver Developer Flips On UBWC For Freedreno | Hardware | 2019-06-11 |
| Google Hired Another Linux Graphics Veteran To Work On Open-Source GPU Drivers | Google | 2019-05-28 |
| Google Developer Contributes Universal Bandwidth Compression To Freedreno Driver | Mesa | 2019-03-02 |
| Freedreno Picks Up OpenGL Compute Support For Adreno A6xx Hardware | Mesa | 2019-02-17 |
| Nouveau Driver Picks Up SVM Support Via HMM | Nouveau | 2019-02-15 |
| Mesa EGL Extension Needed For Universal Driver Configuration GUI Is Almost Landed | Mesa | 2019-01-24 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Lands MSAA Support For Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series | Mesa | 2018-12-09 |
| Google's Pixel 3 Is Using The MSM DRM Driver, More Android Phones Moving To DRM/KMS Code | Google | 2018-11-17 |
| Red Hat Developers Working Towards A Vendor-Neutral Compute Stack To Take On NVIDIA's CUDA | Red Hat | 2018-11-17 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Working To Lower Its Driver Overhead | Mesa | 2018-10-28 |
| MSM-Next Bringing A6xx Performance Improvements, Fixes To The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-10-09 |
| Freedreno Enables Hardware Binning For Adreno A6xx GPUs - Yields Better Performance | Mesa | 2018-10-03 |
| Gallium Clover With SPIR-V & NIR Opening Up New Compute Options Inside Mesa | Mesa | 2018-10-01 |
| Adreno 600 Series Support Lands In Mesa 18.3 Gallium3D | Mesa | 2018-08-18 |
| Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series Support Submitted For Linux 4.19 | Hardware | 2018-08-17 |
| Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series Support Proposed For Linux 4.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-11 |
| Adreno A6xx Gallium3D Support Coming Together | Mesa | 2018-08-04 |
| Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver In Linux 4.19 Getting "DPU1" Support For SDM845+ Support | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-30 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Now Exposes Adreno A5xx Performance Counters | Mesa | 2018-07-19 |
| Freedreno Reaches OpenGL ES 3.1 Support, Not Far From OpenGL 3.3 | Mesa | 2018-06-22 |
| X.Org 2018 Elections Yield 54% Voter Turnout, Select Four New Board Members | X.Org | 2018-04-17 |
| Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver Continues Prepping For Adreno 600 Series Support | Linux Kernel | 2018-03-21 |
| Shared Virtual Memory Support For Nouveau With HMM | Nouveau | 2018-03-10 |
| Compute Support Is Moving Along For Nouveau | Nouveau | 2018-03-08 |
| Freedreno Is Looking Forward To Mesa SPIR-V/OpenCL Too | Mesa | 2018-02-26 |
| Qualcomm Rolls Out ~110k Lines Of New Kernel Code For Snapdragon 845 Display Support | Linux Kernel | 2018-02-13 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Tackling NIR Optimizations & More In 2018 | Mesa | 2018-02-12 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Lands A5xx Texture Tiling For Better Performance | Mesa | 2018-01-14 |
| Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver Wires In DEVFREQ Re-Clocking Support | Linux Kernel | 2018-01-11 |
| Freedreno Lands Context Priority Support | Mesa | 2017-12-25 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Supports A Fair Amount Of OpenGL 4.x | Mesa | 2017-11-18 |
| Freedreno MSM DRM Driver Updates Submitted For Linux 4.15 | Linux Kernel | 2017-10-29 |
| Freedreno Works On Context Priority Support, Plumbs Into Gallium3D | Mesa | 2017-10-25 |
| Mesa Drivers' Use Of Multiple IRs, Gallium3D With NIR | Mesa | 2017-08-27 |
| Freedreno Continues Stacking On New Features For Open-Source Adreno | Mesa | 2017-06-26 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Gets Hardware Binning For A5xx | Mesa | 2017-05-14 |
| CodeAurora Continues Contributions To Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver | Hardware | 2017-05-09 |
| Freedreno Baking A5XX Compute Shader Support | Mesa | 2017-04-19 |
| Freedreno Gets Last Minute Performance Boost For Mesa 17.1 | Mesa | 2017-04-14 |
| X.Org 2017 Election Results | X.Org | 2017-04-13 |
| Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver On Linux 4.12 Gets 4K Support For Newer Hardware | Linux Kernel | 2017-04-09 |
| 2017 X.Org Elections Are Happening Now | X.Org | 2017-03-28 |
| The X.Org Foundation Is Preparing For Their 2017 Elections | X.Org | 2017-02-18 |
| Freedreno's MSM Updates For Linux 4.11, Code Aurora Prepping More Contributions | Linux Kernel | 2017-02-07 |
| Gallium3D Drivers Prepped For EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync | Mesa | 2016-12-02 |
| MSM-Next Prepares Adreno A5xx Support For Linux 4.10 | Linux Kernel | 2016-11-30 |
| Qualcomm Adreno A5xx Open-Source Driver Bringup For Freedreno | Hardware | 2016-11-28 |
| EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync Patches For Mesa | Mesa | 2016-11-19 |
| Freedreno Encouraging Users To Switch To Modesetting X.Org Driver | X.Org | 2016-11-16 |
| Libdrm 2.4.71 Released, Adds Etnaviv, AMDGPU SI Support | Mesa | 2016-10-03 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Driver Scores More Performance Wins | Mesa | 2016-07-30 |
| The Latest Freedreno Achievements For Open-Source Adreno Graphics In 2016 | Mesa | 2016-05-04 |
| Lima Driver Code Sees First Commits In Years | Hardware | 2016-04-02 |
| Gallium3D Is Getting Closer To Support NIR As An Alternate IR | Mesa | 2016-03-27 |
| It's Possible To Get The Nexus 7 Running On A Mainline Linux Kernel | Google | 2016-03-14 |
| There's Still Time To Nominate Someone To The X.Org Board (2016) | X.Org | 2016-03-13 |
| AMD's Massive New DAL Display Driver Is Facing An Uphill Battle | AMD | 2016-02-12 |
| The Nexus 4 & 7 Will Be Closer To Handling An Upstream Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2015-12-14 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Now Supports OpenGL 3.1 | Mesa | 2015-11-19 |
| Linux 4.4 MSM DRM Will Add Snapdragon 820 Support | Hardware | 2015-10-23 |
| Experimental Patches Add NIR As Alternate IR To Gallium3D | Mesa | 2015-10-19 |
| Qualcomm's QuIC Adds Open-Source DRM For Brand New Snapdragon 820 | Hardware | 2015-09-15 |
| With Mesa 11.0 Coming, A Look At Development Stats | Mesa | 2015-08-17 |
| MSM DRM Driver In Linux 4.3 To Bring Initial HDCP Support | Linux Kernel | 2015-08-16 |
| Freedreno Now Has OpenGL ES 3 Working On Adreno A3xx/4xx | Mesa | 2015-08-15 |
| Qualcomm Publishes Some A3xx Register Documentation | Hardware | 2015-08-15 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Gains Transform-Feedback | Mesa | 2015-07-28 |
| Freedreno A4xx Improvements Landing In Mesa Git | Mesa | 2015-07-11 |
| Freedreno Driver Continues Working For Open-Source Qualcomm Driver Independence | Mesa | 2015-07-04 |
| MSM DRM Driver Brings Adreno A306 Support To Linux 4.2 | Hardware | 2015-06-08 |
| Freedreno Now Supports The A306 GPU | Mesa | 2015-05-17 |
| Red Hat Joins Khronos, The Group Behind OpenGL & Vulkan | Red Hat | 2015-04-17 |
| X.Org Foundation + SPI Merger Fails | X.Org | 2015-04-09 |
| Freedreno Driver Drops Its Old Shader Compiler | Mesa | 2015-03-16 |
| QuIC Continues Contributing To Open-Source MDP DRM/KMS Driver | Hardware | 2015-03-06 |
| Freedreno Is Providing Good Adreno A4xx Graphics Acceleration | Mesa | 2015-02-22 |
| Candidates For The 2015 X.Org Board Elections | X.Org | 2015-02-17 |
| The DRM Graphics Changes Submitted For Linux 3.20 | Linux Kernel | 2015-02-16 |
| X.Org's XDC2015 Conference Is Happening In Toronto | X.Org | 2015-02-07 |
| Freedreno's MSM Driver Has New Features For Linux 3.20 | Hardware | 2015-02-01 |
| Freedreno User-Space Driver Stack Continues Stabilizing | Hardware | 2015-01-13 |
| Adreno A4xx Rendering With Freedreno Takes Shape | Mesa | 2014-12-21 |
| Freedreno MSM Driver Has Big Changes For Linux 3.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2014-11-17 |
| Qualcomm A4xx Gallium3D Support Takes Shape | Mesa | 2014-11-16 |
| Mesa 10.3.3 Has A Bunch Of Freedreno Fixes | Mesa | 2014-11-08 |
| Has The Sky Fallen? Qualcomm Contributes To Freedreno's DRM/KMS Driver | Hardware | 2014-10-31 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Is Passing 90%+ Of Piglit Tests | Mesa | 2014-10-05 |
| Freedreno 1.3.0 DDX Brings Several Fixes | X.Org | 2014-10-04 |
| Libdrm 2.4.57 Brings Android Build Support & More | Mesa | 2014-09-28 |
| Mesa's Top Contributors This Summer | Mesa | 2014-09-07 |
| Freedreno Driver Now Supports Server Managed FDs, Automatic Config | X.Org | 2014-07-14 |
| High Risk Security Hole Discovered In Qualcomm's GPU Driver | Linux Security | 2014-06-24 |
| Linux GPU Drivers Prepare For Global Thermo-Nuclear War | X.Org | 2014-06-05 |
| KMSCUBE Now Runs On NVIDIA's Jetson TK1 | Nouveau | 2014-06-05 |
| Mesa 10.2 Features Are Quite Exciting | Mesa | 2014-05-26 |
| Mesa Is At 1.4 Million Lines Of Code | Mesa | 2014-05-26 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Now Handles sRGB Textures, OpenGL 2.1 | Mesa | 2014-05-17 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Now Supports OpenGL 2.0 | Mesa | 2014-05-14 |
| Freedreno 1.1 Driver Runs With XA Acceleration | X.Org | 2014-05-06 |
| No, ARM Didn't Open-Source Their Full Mali Linux Driver | Arm | 2014-05-02 |
| Universal Plane Support Set For Linux 3.15 | Linux Kernel | 2014-04-02 |
| XA Gallium3D Performance Improvements Published | Mesa | 2014-04-01 |
| XA Acceleration Coming To Freedreno Gallium3D | Mesa | 2014-02-09 |
| Understanding The New & Faster A3XX Compiler | Mesa | 2014-02-06 |
| Gallium3D's Freedreno Driver Gets A New Compiler | Mesa | 2014-02-04 |
| Freedreno Gallium3D Gets A Performance Boost | Hardware | 2014-01-09 |
| The Vivante Mesa Driver Is Still Brewing | Mesa | 2013-12-25 |
| MSM DRM Will Support New Hardware In Linux 3.14 | Hardware | 2013-12-08 |
| Freedreno Gains Support For The Adreno 330 | Mesa | 2013-12-07 |
| The DRM/KMS Drivers In The Linux 3.13 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2013-12-02 |
| Freedreno ARM GPU Driver Keeps Hitting Milestones | Arm | 2013-11-24 |
| Freedreno Graphics Driver Reaches Version 1.0 | X.Org | 2013-11-16 |
| Linux 3.12 Changes, Kernel Feature Overview | Linux Kernel | 2013-11-03 |
| MSM Driver To Get PRIME & Render Nodes Support | Linux Kernel | 2013-10-20 |
| Lima Driver Has Some Speed Wins, But Will Not Be Mainlined | Hardware | 2013-10-02 |
| X.Org XDC2013 Recap Of New Features Presented | X.Org | 2013-09-28 |
| The State Of Open-Source ARM GPU Drivers | Arm | 2013-09-27 |
| Open-Source Freedreno Graphics Driver Is Now Faster | Free Software | 2013-09-15 |
| DRM Graphics Updates Sent In For Linux 3.12 | Linux Kernel | 2013-09-05 |
| Exciting Features That Will Come To Linux 3.12 | Linux Kernel | 2013-08-31 |
| Snapdragon DRM/KMS Driver Merged For Linux 3.12 | Linux Kernel | 2013-08-28 |
| Freedreno Driver Programming Documentation Updated | Free Software | 2013-08-25 |
| Snapdragon DRM/KMS Driver Still Forthcoming | Free Software | 2013-08-19 |
| Google Chrome OS Developers Working On DRM Code | Google | 2013-08-09 |
| Freedreno DRM/Gallium3D Shines Well For ARM | Arm | 2013-07-30 |
| MSM DRM/KMS Driver For Snapdragon Progresses | Linux Kernel | 2013-07-22 |
| DRM/KMS Driver Published For Snapdragon Graphics | Hardware | 2013-07-06 |
| Freedreno Driver Gains Qualcomm A3XX Support | Mesa | 2013-06-09 |
| Fedora 19 Installer Comes For Google Nexus 4 | Fedora | 2013-06-05 |
| Freedreno Running On Nexus 4 With The GNOME Shell | Mesa | 2013-06-02 |
