Tyr Team Makes Major Progress on Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware in 2025
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Summary
The Tyr team made significant progress in 2025 developing a Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali hardware, starting with little to show and ending the year with a working prototype that could run SuperTuxKart at the Linux Plumbers Conference. The project is a collaboration between Arm, Collabora, and Google, representing a major advancement in Rust-based GPU driver development for Linux systems.
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by the end of the year, we were able to play SuperTuxKart (a 3D open-source racing game) at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC)
Our prototype was a joint effort between Arm, Collabora, and Google
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