That is good news for Panfrost but seems to not matter for the Pinebook?
Please let me know if I am following things correctly, with citations:
The Pinebook [0] will use the Pine A64 single board computer [1].
The Pine A64 single board computer is made using the Allwinner A64 SoC [2].
The Allwinner A64 SoC uses the Mali-400 GPU [3] [4].
The Mali-400 is part of the Utgard microarchitecture [5].
Panfrost only targets the Midgard and Bifrost versions of Mali, not Utgard
[6] and so this news has no impact to the Pinebook.
[0] https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707
[1] https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=1194
[2]
http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PINE_A64_Main_Page#SoC_and_Memory_Specification
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)#Implementations
[4]
http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PINE_A64_Main_Page#SoC_and_Memory_Specification
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)#Variants
[6] https://panfrost.freedesktop.org/
