--- title: Linaro Virtual Connect | daily.dev description: Collabora is presenting at Linaro Virtual Connect (March 23-25, 2021) with two talks: Nicolas Dufresne covering stateless video decoder support in Linux —... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linaro-virtual-connect-easqzqrxc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linaro Virtual Connect | daily.dev og:description: Collabora is presenting at Linaro Virtual Connect (March 23-25, 2021) with two talks: Nicolas Dufresne covering stateless video decoder support in Linux —... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linaro-virtual-connect-easqzqrxc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EASqzqrXC.png og:image:alt: Linaro Virtual Connect 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. # Linaro Virtual Connect **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Collabora is presenting at Linaro Virtual Connect (March 23-25, 2021) with two talks: Nicolas Dufresne covering stateless video decoder support in Linux — including the V4L2 API, hardware accelerators on Allwinner, NXP i.MX8, Microchip SAMA5, and Rockchip platforms, plus FFMPEG/GStreamer integration — and Alyssa Rosenzweig giving a status update on open source Arm GPU drivers, including Panfrost for Mali Bifrost and Freedreno for Adreno GPUs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the status of stateless video decoder support in the Linux kernel and which platforms are supported? Stateless video decoder support gained significant traction with a formal specification merged into the Linux Media subsystem in v5.5, enabling blob-free hardware-accelerated decoding on Allwinner, NXP i.MX8, Microchip SAMA5, and Rockchip platforms. H.264 V4L2 controls were destaged in v5.11, with remaining CODEC controls coming to mainline. Native support in FFMPEG and GStreamer is also part of the effort. _Developers working on embedded Linux video pipelines track kernel media subsystem progress on daily.dev._ ### What is the Panfrost driver and which Mali GPU architectures does it support? Panfrost is an open source Linux graphics driver for Mali GPUs, developed in collaboration with Arm. It materialized with support for the Bifrost GPU architecture, marking a major milestone for open source graphics on Arm platforms after years of waiting for open driver support. _Engineers targeting Arm GPU platforms follow open driver developments like Panfrost on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#arm](https://daily.dev/tags/arm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/linaro-virtual-connect-easqzqrxc) ```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":"Linaro Virtual Connect","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/linaro-virtual-connect-easqzqrxc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/linaro-virtual-connect-easqzqrxc"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:56:12.187Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:32:50.908Z","description":"Collabora is presenting at Linaro Virtual Connect (March 23-25, 2021) with two talks: Nicolas Dufresne covering stateless video decoder support in Linux —...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0c51828d914cf3056e0cb2cac36c9748?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0c51828d914cf3056e0cb2cac36c9748?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Collabora Blog","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Collabora Blog","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ZGZ0FjqS--/f_auto,q_auto/v1786438306/logos/collabora?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/collabora"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/linaro-virtual-connect-easqzqrxc","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"linux,arm","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Collabora Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/collabora"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Linaro Virtual Connect"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/linaro-virtual-connect-easqzqrxc#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is the status of stateless video decoder support in the Linux kernel and which platforms are supported?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Stateless video decoder support gained significant traction with a formal specification merged into the Linux Media subsystem in v5.5, enabling blob-free hardware-accelerated decoding on Allwinner, NXP i.MX8, Microchip SAMA5, and Rockchip platforms. 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