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Collabora @collabora.com · 2d

Important Patch Series For Nouveau Driver Will Help With NVK Performance

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Important Patch Series For Nouveau Driver Will Help With NVK Performance

A patch series posted today for Nouveau, the open-source NVIDIA kernel driver within the mainline Linux tree, can help overcome some performance obstacles currently observed with the Mesa NVK Vulkan d...

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Collabora @collabora.com · 7d

#XDC2025: Imagination's PowerVR Mesa effort reached an exciting milestone yesterday, with support landing for #Vulkan 1.2! #OpenSource #Mesa3D

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Collabora @collabora.com · 8d

#XDC2025: Faith Ekstrand explaining Nouveau's switch to #Zink for #OpenGL. Read more about that change here: col.la/hellozink

#OpenSource

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Collabora @collabora.com · 8d

Coming up next, Faith Ekstrand takes the stage again to look at all that has happened in Nouveau in the last year, including #Vulkan 1.4 support in #NVK; Vulkan conformance on Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, and Kepler; and the switch to #Zink for #OpenGL. Watch live: live.video.tuwien.ac.at/watch?l=hsJN...

LectureTube Live

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Collabora @collabora.com · 8d

#XDC2025: Erik Faye-Lund & Arm's Lars-Ivar Simonsen giving an overview of #PanVK's significant progress in just 6 months, going from a PoC to supporting #Vulkan 1.4!

#OpenSource #Panfrost

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Collabora @collabora.com · 8d

Day 3 at #XDC2025! Coming up today, Erik Faye-Lund presents "PanVK: from PoC to Vulkan 1.4 in less than a year" and Faith Ekstrand gives an update on Nouveau/NVK! Watch live: live.video.tuwien.ac.at/watch?l=hsJN...

#PanVK #Vulkan #NVK #Mesa3D #OpenSource

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Collabora @collabora.com · 8d

The #Linux kernel 6.17 is here with advancements in the graphics subsystem, improved hardware enablement for MediaTek, Rockchip support, and more!

See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to this release: col.la/lx617

Kernel 6.17: auspicious autumnal accomplishments

See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to the 6.17 release with grapics subsytem improvements and more!

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Collabora @collabora.com · 8d

#XDC2025: Eric Smith presenting "Adding New YUV Formats to Mesa". Watch live here: live.video.tuwien.ac.at/watch?l=hsJN... #OpenGL

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Collabora @collabora.com · 9d

Day 2 at #XDC2025 in Vienna! Coming up at 14:30 UTC, Eric Smith dives into YUV texture formats, and how to add support for a new format in #OpenGL. Watch live here: live.video.tuwien.ac.at/watch?l=hsJN...

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Collabora @collabora.com · 9d

Vulkan 1.4.328 Published With Copy Memory Indirect Extension

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Vulkan 1.4.328 Published With Copy Memory Indirect Extension

Vulkan 1.4.328 is now available as the latest specification update to this high performance graphics and compute API from The Khronos Group.

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Collabora @collabora.com · 10d

#XDC2025: Daniel Almeida discussing the current state of Tyr, a new GPU kernel mode driver written in Rust for Arm Mali GPUs. #rustlang

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Collabora @collabora.com · 10d

A very full room at TU Wien for the #XDC2025 Embedded Graphics 101 workshop, hosted by Erik Faye-Lund! #OpenSource

Embedded Graphics 101 workshop at TU Wien

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Collabora @collabora.com · 10d

Some exciting news at #XDC2025: Faith Ekstrand announcing that The Khronos Group have been listening to developers, and are now working on a brand new descriptor model for #Vulkan!

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Collabora @collabora.com · 10d

#XDC2025: Faith Ekstrand kicking things off in a packed room in Vienna! Watch live here: live.video.tuwien.ac.at/watch?l=hsJN...

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Collabora @collabora.com · 13d

Abandoned vendor-provided BSP roadblocks can be overcome when mainline Open Source projects like the Linux kernel are integrated directly.

Learn how we can help move your platform closer to the upstream projects: col.la/bspsupport

#opensource

What to do about differing product life cycles

See how abandoned vendor-provided BSP can be overcome with a fully open, vendor BSP free software stack.

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Kernel Recipes @kernelrecipes.bsky.social · 14d

Already the last talk of this #kr2025 edition

How to tame a Panthor - Boris Brezillon
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Collabora @collabora.com · 15d

Next week, Collabora will be taking part in the 2025 edition of the X.Org Developer's Conference! Set in Vienna, our engineers will present 6 talks and a workshop to help local students discover the embedded graphics stack!

Join us! col.la/xdc2025

#XDC2025

From Vienna, with Open Source: XDC 2025

Join us at XDC 2025 next week for our 6 talks and embedded graphics workshop!

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Collabora @collabora.com · 15d

Make the most of @kernelrecipes.bsky.social with Boris Brezillon's talk on writing a modern kernel GPU!

Join him tomorrow at 14:50 UTC as he breaks down the Panthor, the kernel and userspace driver for Mali GPU: col.la/kr2025

#OpenSource #Linux

Demystifying the special ingredient at Kernel Recipes 2025

Catch our talk at Kernel Recipes on demystifying GPUs!

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Collabora @collabora.com · 19d

Catch us next week in Paris for the 12th edition of Kernel Recipes! As sponsors, we're thrilled to support the advancement of the #Linux Kernel.

Be sure to add Boris Brezillon's talk to your schedule where he'll be simplifying writing a modern kernel GPU: col.la/kr2025

#OpenSource

Demystifying the special ingredient at Kernel Recipes 2025

Catch our talk at Kernel Recipes on demystifying GPUs!

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Collabora @collabora.com · 21d

#sidolyon2025: LiteRT models optimized for the #STM32MP2 NPU, mainline #GStreamer Analytics framework, video & metadata streaming via AVB, and more. Come take a look, booth O312! #OpenSource

Machine learning with GStreamer on the STM32MP2 at SIDL in Lyon

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Collabora @collabora.com · 21d

Day 2 at #sidolyon2025! Come say hello, booth #O312, and see machine learning with #GStreamer via AVB/TSN on the #STM32MP2! #Linux #STPartnerProgram #STMicroelectronics

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Collabora @collabora.com · 22d

Busy afternoon at #sidolyon2025! If you're walking the halls, make sure to stop by the #STMicroelectronics booth at #O312, and discover how the #STM32MP2 chip empowers edge AI solutions for industrial applications. col.la/sido2025 #STPartnerProgram

STMicroelectronics ecosystem at SIDO 2025 in Lyon

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Collabora @collabora.com · 22d

AFBC support has been merged to #PanVK and will be available in the Mesa 25.3 release! This new enablement reduces memory bandwidth and boosts performance.

Try it for yourself: col.la/panvkafbc

#Panfrost #OpenSource

PanVK now uses AFBC by default

AFBC support has been merged to PanVK and will be available in the Mesa 25.3 release!

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Collabora @collabora.com · 22d

Good morning Lyon! Day 1 has begun at #sidolyon2025, come say hello at booth O312, and see how we can make #Linux work for you! col.la/sido2025

#sidolyon #STPartnerProgram #STMicroelectronics #STM32MP2 #GStreamer #ML #AI #OpenSource

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Phoronix @phoronix-poster.bsky.social · 22d

Tyr Driver Being Submitted For Linux 6.18 As Rust-Based Arm Mali Driver - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-DRM-Drivers-Linux-6.18-Tyr

Tyr Driver Being Submitted For Linux 6.18 As Rust-Based Arm Mali Driver

The big set of Rust DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates were sent out to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel. Most notable with this pull request is merging the Tyr driver, the new open-source and Rust-based DRM driver for Arm Mali GPUs...

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