Re: [PATCH v7 00/20] Imagination Technologies PowerVR DRM driver

[Maxim Kochetkov]

On 10.10.2023 16:37, Sarah Walker wrote:
> This patch series adds the initial DRM driver for Imagination Technologies PowerVR
> GPUs, starting with those based on our Rogue architecture. It's worth pointing
> out that this is a new driver, written from the ground up, rather than a
> refactored version of our existing downstream driver (pvrsrvkm).
>
> This new DRM driver supports:
> - GEM shmem allocations
> - dma-buf / PRIME
> - Per-context userspace managed virtual address space
> - DRM sync objects (binary and timeline)
> - Power management suspend / resume
> - GPU job submission (geometry, fragment, compute, transfer)
> - META firmware processor
> - MIPS firmware processor
> - GPU hang detection and recovery
>
> Currently our main focus is on the AXE-1-16M GPU. Testing so far has been done
> using a TI SK-AM62 board (AXE-1-16M GPU). Firmware for the AXE-1-16M can be
> found here:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/frankbinns/linux-firmware/-/tree/powervr

And what about another PowerVR (rogue-based) GPU? There are a lot of 
different models of rogue GPU in existed SoCs. New driver uses v3 
firmware, but vendors uses v1/v2 firmwares. Who will provide 
firmware/source code v3 for all the others models?