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Time for ImgTech to go Linux/Mesa friendly maybe? With an open source graphic stack they could become a great choice for projects like Raspberry Pi and other hw manifacturers: imagine a Vulkan-ready linux laptop that combines a rpi Compute module with the graphic potential from their GPUs... Hope they would be this brave.

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I think they're too attached to their "precious IP" to allow that.

It seems their closed source drivers are full of bugs and incomplete functionality

According to the post at https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Power-VR... from 2015, PowerVR is/was working on an open source driver. Does anybody know whether something materialized from this?

Last time I pinged their spokesman (Alex Voica), the answer was that they hadn't found someone with the 'right fit'.

When was that?

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