Release the panthor: Kernel driver supporting 10th-gen Arm Mali GPUs merged

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Late last week, the long-awaited kernel driver supporting 10th-generation Arm Mali GPUs was merged into drm-misc. The existing Gallium driver support has also been extended, effectively enabling GPUs on Rockchip's RK3588 platforms.

It's sad that Arm hates desktop Linux but I guess they don't make any money from it.

Not sure how this relates to desktop, but from the article it seems that Arm got some nice involvement going:

> Another huge change is Arm officially joining the party. We were not only given access to some documentation, but they also took an active part in the review process and two developers are currently flagged as co-maintainers of the kernel driver. Some would say that this was already the case when Panfrost got merged, but we have strong reasons to believe Arm's involvement is going to grow outside the kernel space this time.

Mali is meant for Android devices and Arm provides official drivers for Android. Arm doesn't provide any drivers for the desktop Linux stack so people are spending years reverse engineering drivers.

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