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The latest #Mesa 25.2 release introduces support for AFBC compressed YUV textures in the #Panfrost driver for ARM Mali GPUs.

See how this new feature enables more efficient memory bandwidth and power usage in video playback and real-time texture processing: collabora.com/news-and-blog/ne

Collabora | Open Source ConsultingImprovements to Mesa video decoding for PanfrostThe latest Mesa 25.2 release sees added support for AFBC compressed YUV textures.
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postmarketOS monthly report: apk3 available available on edge, proof-of-concept immutable edition, /usr merge, pmbootstrap updates, expanded device support (including iPhones):
postmarketos.org/blog/2025/08/

Ubuntu Touch gets new versioning scheme, 24.04 1.0 and 20.04 OTA-10 call for testing:
ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-

Intel WWAN IOSM, Keem Bay DRM and T7XX 5G WWAN drivers orphaned:
phoronix.com/news/Intel-More-O

Mesa 25.2 released with support for deprecated functionality removed, Clover OpenCL replaced by RustiCL, rustc-hash crate added as a dependency for Collabora’s NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs (to improve shader compile time), PanVK improvements, etc.:
9to5linux.com/mesa-25-2-open-s

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postmarketOSpostmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma cameraAiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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I'm currently in the process of cleaning up all the hacks I used to upstream this as quickly as possible. Along the way, I also fixed some issues with 3d, cube, and 2d_array support 😎

dEQP-GLES3.functional.texture.format.sized.*.rgba32*

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