Mesa 20.3 released with Raspberry Pi 4 V3DK driver, Panfrost Bifrost support

in #embedded4 years ago


We've previously reported that the Vulkan 1.0 conformant V3DK driver for Raspberry Pi 4 and other Broadcom BCM2711 based platforms was part of Mesa 20.3 open-source graphics framework. But at the time, it was still under development.

The good news is that Mesa 20.3 has now been released, and there's much more than Raspberry Pi 4 support, as Collabora informed us the release also included Arm Mali Bifrost GPU support via the open-source Panfrost driver.

Mesa 20.3 Raspberry Pi 4 Mali Bifrost

The latter was made possible thanks to the work by Alyssa Rosenzweig and Boris Brezillon, with Alyssa going into details in a recent blog


The full article can be found @ https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/12/04/mesa-20-3-released-with-raspberry-pi-4-v3dk-driver-panfrost-bifrost-support/