[HeyMeco]

Great accomplishment from the developers. Being announced in July and already running gnome and games. 2026 is going to become very interesting

[reckoning]

Would you be able to elaborate further on the implications? What sort of devices and use cases would benefit from this work?

Looks like this is ARM specific, and is a layer between more 'traditional' APIs, ala vulkan and opengl, and the device's gpu.

Would this work provide speed ups or is it more for compatibility?

[bonzini]

You can read more about the organization of the work and how it's split between kernel and user space at https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/08/06/writ....

[throawayonthe]

this 'layer' exists for all linux gpu drivers, and this one is specific to certain Arm Mali gpus

ie radv/radeonsi would be the analogue for amd, honeykrisp/asahi for apple, freedreno for qualcomm etc