[mntmn]

This is not true, the panthor driver (previously pancsf) for mesa is actively being developed and funded, and already works quite well (I had a demo desktop running on prototye MNT Reform Next laptop at 37c3).

[mort96]

I feel like "already" is a bit strong considering the GPU has been out for almost 3 years and it's still seemingly far from upstream.

[imtringued]

And the main panfrost developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has moved on, so the pace of development has declined significantly. At this point the Raspberry Pi 5 is more than capable and the Rock 5 has lost the primary advantage it once had.