VESA DRM Driver Ready With 8-Bit Color Palette Mode For Linux 6.18
This week's drm-misc-next pull of feature updates to the small Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver bring a few updates worth pointing out ahead of the Linux 6.18 cycle.
New hardware support includes the Radxa Ra620 being added to the bridge code along with the Device Tree bindings. The Rockchip DRM driver meanwhile adds support for the RK3576 SoC plus its bindings as well. The Rockchip RK3576 is an AIoT SoC made up of four Cortex-A72 and four Cortex-A53 cores, Arm Mali G52 MC3 graphics, and a 6 TOPS NPU.
Somewhat peculiar in 2025 is the VESA DRM driver seeing support for 8-bit color palette modes added.
Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE was motivated to work on this VESADRM driver support for 8-bit palette modes. He tested the 8-bit paelettes successfully on some VGA hardware. His motivation here in this support was for supporting "odd use-cases" as well as testing support for low-end displays.
More details on this week's drm-misc-next changes that are lining up ahead of Linux 6.18 merge window can be found via this pull request to DRM-Next.
New hardware support includes the Radxa Ra620 being added to the bridge code along with the Device Tree bindings. The Rockchip DRM driver meanwhile adds support for the RK3576 SoC plus its bindings as well. The Rockchip RK3576 is an AIoT SoC made up of four Cortex-A72 and four Cortex-A53 cores, Arm Mali G52 MC3 graphics, and a 6 TOPS NPU.
Somewhat peculiar in 2025 is the VESA DRM driver seeing support for 8-bit color palette modes added.
Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE was motivated to work on this VESADRM driver support for 8-bit palette modes. He tested the 8-bit paelettes successfully on some VGA hardware. His motivation here in this support was for supporting "odd use-cases" as well as testing support for low-end displays.
More details on this week's drm-misc-next changes that are lining up ahead of Linux 6.18 merge window can be found via this pull request to DRM-Next.