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Imagination Driver To Support The TI AM62P SoC In Linux 6.20~7.0

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 15 January 2026 at 09:27 AM EST. 3 Comments
Sent out today was the latest DRM-Misc-Next pull request of new material ahead of the next kernel cycle either Linux 6.20 or 7.0 depending upon what Linus Torvalds decides to call it.

With this latest DRM-Misc-Next code on its way to DRM-Next until the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window in February, most notable is adding TI AM62P SoC support for its graphics within the Imagination PowerVR driver.

👁 AM62P development board


The TI AM62P SoC features four Arm Cortex A53 cores and an Arm Cortex R5F. On the graphics side is the Imagination PowerVR Rogue BXS-4 GPU. With patches now on their way to DRM-Next, that GPU support in the AM62P is good to go for end-users with this Imagination DRM kernel driver and in turn the PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa.

This pull request has that TI AM62P support for the Imagination DRM driver plus various core fixes, warm boot handling for the Intel NPU6 for Nova Lake, AMDXDNA accelerator driver updates, and other clean-ups.

For those looking to try out Imagination's open-source PowerVR graphics driver stack, see yesterday's article: $99 BeaglePlay Board Achieves "100% Open-Source" Upstream PowerVR Graphics.

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