Rosenzweig: From Panfrost to production, a tale of Open Source graphics

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Alyssa Rosenzweig reports
on the progress
of the Panfrost driver. “Since our previous update on Panfrost, the open source stack for Arm’s Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs, we’ve focused on taking our driver from its reverse-engineered origins on Midgard to a mature stack. We’ve overhauled both the Gallium driver and the backend compiler, and as a result, Mesa 20.3 — scheduled for release at the end-of-the-month — will feature some Bifrost support out-of-the-box.