14:33 <hays> people seem to be using the new driver with 5.10 kernels... how are they doing that?

14:34 <hays> (vendor kernels)

14:35 <daniels> hays: most of them I believe are not actually using the new upstream driver but an unsupported downstream forked version which uses Arm's kernel driver rather than the DRM one

14:35 <hays> yeah i know about that--but i see bug reports

14:36 <hays> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/8036

14:36 <hays> so i was curious if we had a backport that was suitable for testing and sending in reports of issues

14:37 <hays> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/8405

14:46 <daniels> yeah, that downstream driver is not at all supported by us and never will be

14:46 <daniels> but the good news is that the real one is under development :)

14:46 <daniels> it's currently in bbrezillon's linux/mesa branches on gitlab.fd.o, but please beware that it is under _very_ heavy development, and as such bug reports aren't useful at this stage

14:47 <daniels> fixes are definitely useful, but if you run into something that doesn't work, you can assume that it will be fixed as development proceeds

20:40 <hays> daniels: do you know of a way to get the kernel driver working in the 5.10 vendor kernel?

20:41 <hays> I think I would need to that to test and am very interested to do so as I am developer for a project that will use this and am currently on the mali drivers

20:42 <mntirc> i don't think that's possible as there will be pancsf specific things in the kernel

21:51 <hays> yes, in the kernel

21:51 <hays> there is a kernel piece, mesa piece, and then the blob

21:53 <hays> im pretty sure I see the kernel fork https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bbrezillon/linux/-/tree/pancsf

21:54 <hays> but nothing in 2 months can't be right for the mesa piece

22:03 <daniels> it is right, the original commit dates are just off

22:04 <daniels> I’m afraid the only way back to 5.10 is either to forward-port your device support forward to upstream, or backport most of DRM back there

22:05 <macc24> daniels: most of drm?

22:06 <hays> daniels: which branch?

22:10 <hays> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/panfrost/mesa/-/tree/panfrost/v10-wip#branch=panfrost/v10-wip ?

22:12 <hays> daniels: ok--so i guess what im hearing i that those bug reports were filed by people running panfork