State of Mesa3D Panfrost on ARM Mali and PowerVR on RISC-V: Bring-up Challenges and Progress (osc26)

This talk presents a current status update on open-source GPU support in Mesa3D, focusing on Panfrost for ARM Mali and emerging enablement efforts for Imagination PowerVR on RISC-V platforms. It outlines the practical challenges encountered when bringing up graphics on new hardware—covering kernel driver readiness, firmware constraints, userspace integration, and Mesa driver maturity. Using a recent RISC-V board bring-up as a case study, the session details the end-to-end process from early boot to functional OpenGL acceleration, and gaps in current upstream support. Particular attention is given to PowerVR enablement hurdles on RISC-V, where ecosystem fragmentation and limited documentation still require significant groundwork. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://c3voc.de