--- title: Imagination Talks Up Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver,... description: Imagination Technologies presented at XDC 2026 Toronto on the progress of their open-source PowerVR Mesa Vulkan driver and upstream PVR DRM kernel driver. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/imagination-talks-up-their-open-source-vulkan-driver-volcanic-architecture-plans-4jp2nhfyg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Imagination Talks Up Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver, Volcanic Architecture Plans | daily.dev og:description: Imagination Technologies presented at XDC 2026 Toronto on the progress of their open-source PowerVR Mesa Vulkan driver and upstream PVR DRM kernel driver. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/imagination-talks-up-their-open-source-vulkan-driver-volcanic-architecture-plans-4jp2nhfyg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4JP2nhFyG.png og:image:alt: Imagination Talks Up Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver, Volcanic Architecture Plans og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Imagination Talks Up Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver, Volcanic Architecture Plans **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Imagination Technologies presented at XDC 2026 Toronto on the progress of their open-source PowerVR Mesa Vulkan driver and upstream PVR DRM kernel driver. The Vulkan driver reached formal Vulkan 1.2 conformance this year, with OpenGL ES 2.0 support working via Zink since Mesa 26.1 and ES 3.1 expected around Mesa 26.3. Other milestones include new CI testing, a full-featured PVRTune replacing the old Lite version, out-of-box support on BeagleV-Ahead, and experimental RISC-V VisionFive 2 support. Going forward, the team plans to pursue Vulkan 1.3 and 1.4 conformance and begin supporting Imagination's new Volcanic GPU architecture. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Does the open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver support Vulkan 1.2 conformance? Yes, the PowerVR Mesa Vulkan driver reached formal Vulkan 1.2 conformance within the past year. The project has also continued enabling more Vulkan features, fixing kernel driver bugs, and is now targeting Vulkan 1.3 and Vulkan 1.4 conformance going forward. _Follow daily.dev for updates on open-source GPU driver conformance milestones like PowerVR's Vulkan support._ ### When did OpenGL ES 2.0 start working on PowerVR via Zink in Mesa? OpenGL ES 2.0 support via Zink has been working on PowerVR since Mesa 26.1, with OpenGL ES 3.1 support hoped to be ready by Mesa 26.3. Zink translates OpenGL calls to Vulkan, letting PowerVR's Vulkan driver back OpenGL ES workloads without a separate native OpenGL driver. _Developers tracking Mesa driver support across GPUs can follow these releases on daily.dev._ ### Which open hardware boards support the open-source PowerVR GPU driver? The open-source PowerVR GPU driver works out of the box on the BeagleV-Ahead board, and there is experimental support for the RISC-V VisionFive 2 board. Continuous integration testing has also been added for the PowerVR driver code to help maintain stability across these platforms. _daily.dev helps developers working with RISC-V boards keep up with open-source GPU driver support._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL](https://daily.dev/posts/imagination-s-open-source-powervr-vulkan-driver-now-plays-nicely-with-zink-opengl-neig2zhea) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [PowerVR Open-Source Vulkan Driver Preparing For New GPU Support](https://daily.dev/posts/powervr-open-source-vulkan-driver-preparing-for-new-gpu-support-erdjsthzj) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Imagination GPU Driver Update Adds Support for Additional Vulkan and OpenCL Extensions](https://daily.dev/posts/imagination-gpu-driver-update-adds-support-for-additional-vulkan-and-opencl-extensions-j3f3xqnmj) · Khronos · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#vulkan](https://daily.dev/tags/vulkan), [#mesa](https://daily.dev/tags/mesa) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/imagination-talks-up-their-open-source-vulkan-driver-volcanic-architecture-plans-4jp2nhfyg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Imagination Talks Up Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver, Volcanic Architecture Plans","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/imagination-talks-up-their-open-source-vulkan-driver-volcanic-architecture-plans-4jp2nhfyg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/imagination-talks-up-their-open-source-vulkan-driver-volcanic-architecture-plans-4jp2nhfyg"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T13:06:26.006Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T13:07:07.625Z","description":"Imagination Technologies presented at XDC 2026 Toronto on the progress of their open-source PowerVR Mesa Vulkan driver and upstream PVR DRM kernel driver. 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