--- title: Opening up Mali T720 | daily.dev description: Collabora engineers Alyssa Rosenzweig and Tomeu Vizoso have reverse-engineered the Mali T720 and T820 GPUs and added support for them in the upstream Panfrost... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/opening-up-mali-t720-znfq5djkz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Opening up Mali T720 | daily.dev og:description: Collabora engineers Alyssa Rosenzweig and Tomeu Vizoso have reverse-engineered the Mali T720 and T820 GPUs and added support for them in the upstream Panfrost... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/opening-up-mali-t720-znfq5djkz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zNFQ5DJkZ.png og:image:alt: Opening up Mali T720 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. # Opening up Mali T720 **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Collabora engineers Alyssa Rosenzweig and Tomeu Vizoso have reverse-engineered the Mali T720 and T820 GPUs and added support for them in the upstream Panfrost Mesa driver. Key challenges included implementing non-hierarchical tiling (replacing the hierarchical tiler used on higher-end Mali GPUs), handling 'interpipe register aliasing' in the Midgard compiler, and supporting the simplified single framebuffer descriptor instead of the multiple framebuffer descriptor. With these changes, T720 and T820 now reach feature parity with other supported Mali GPUs, and Panfrost is ready for daily use on Mali GPUs from T720 to T860. All code is upstream in Mesa. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Which Mali GPUs are supported by the Panfrost driver in upstream Mesa? Panfrost in upstream Mesa supports Mali GPUs from T720 to T860. T720 and T820 were added after reverse-engineering work that addressed non-hierarchical tiling, interpipe register aliasing in the Midgard compiler, and single framebuffer descriptor support. Devices like Allwinner H6 and Amlogic S912 boards are among those that benefit from this support. _Developers targeting Mali hardware track Panfrost driver progress on daily.dev._ ### What is interpipe register aliasing in Mali T720 GPU architecture? Interpipe register aliasing is a feature of simplified Mali GPUs like the T720 where texture registers are diffused into the work and load/store register spaces, rather than existing as a separate third set. On standard Midgard GPUs, work, load/store, and texture registers are three distinct sets. This aliasing required specific changes to the Panfrost compiler to fix texture-related issues. _GPU driver developers following Mali internals and open source graphics work find relevant deep-dives on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [PanVK Mali Vulkan Driver Lands In-Memory Cache & On-Disk Shader Cache Support](https://daily.dev/posts/panvk-mali-vulkan-driver-lands-in-memory-cache-on-disk-shader-cache-support-y2z1wbliv) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520](https://daily.dev/posts/imagination-powervr-bxm-4-64-gpu-firmware-upstreamed-for-the-t-head-th1520-9iv2foerk) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default](https://daily.dev/posts/mesa-s-rusticl-now-enables-arm-mali-panfrost-driver-support-by-default-itpmna5qe) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code](https://daily.dev/posts/prominent-mesa-developer-now-working-for-arm-on-panvk-panfrost-code-xsqflqtlc) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-radeon-driver-for-r300-through-r500-gpus-sees-big-code-cleanup-in-2026-1kb8svx7l) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#gpu](https://daily.dev/tags/gpu), [#mesa](https://daily.dev/tags/mesa), [#opengl](https://daily.dev/tags/opengl), [#reverse-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/reverse-engineering) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/opening-up-mali-t720-znfq5djkz) ```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":"Opening up Mali T720","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/opening-up-mali-t720-znfq5djkz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/opening-up-mali-t720-znfq5djkz"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:57:20.015Z","dateModified":"2026-10-15T02:19:31.074Z","description":"Collabora engineers Alyssa Rosenzweig and Tomeu Vizoso have reverse-engineered the Mali T720 and T820 GPUs and added support for them in the upstream Panfrost...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/739ea73824dc87f1e8d6d1af76194fcc?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/739ea73824dc87f1e8d6d1af76194fcc?_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/opening-up-mali-t720-znfq5djkz","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"gpu,mesa,opengl,reverse-engineering","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@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":"Opening up Mali T720"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/opening-up-mali-t720-znfq5djkz#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Which Mali GPUs are supported by the Panfrost driver in upstream Mesa?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Panfrost in upstream Mesa supports Mali GPUs from T720 to T860. 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