Imagination
Open Source GPU Driver
View and download our Open Source GPU Driver deliverables
Here at Imagination, we’re giving developers, silicon vendors, and OEMs full control over their graphics software stack.
Through our continuously developed Open Source GPU drivers, we enable our partners and the broader open source community to tailor, extend, and maintain their independent software stacks, as needed for their specific use cases.
These high quality GPU drivers are aligned with the open source standards, and we’re regularly upstreaming conformant code to support additional Imagination GPUs and API variants.
Imagination’s high performance native Vulkan driver implementation relies on the Mesa framework’s open source compiler technology.
Conformant Vulkan 1.0 driver for Imagination’s Rogue architecture GPUs is available as part of Mesa 25.3. Upstream driver code for Vulkan 1.2 will undergo Khronos conformance validation in 2026.
Imagination’s AXE-1-16(M) and BXS-4-64 cores are supported with Linux kernel 6.16 and later, with additional GPUs becoming available in later Linux kernel releases.
Binary firmware files for selected Imagination GPUs are available upstream.
Register descriptions for Imagination’s Rogue architecture GPUs can be accessed below.
March 2026
March 2026
Support for Zink!
- Our open-source Vulkan driver now has what it needs to run OpenGL and OpenGL ES applications via Zink.
February 2026
February 2026
Imagination GPUs Enter Mesa CI
- We’ve integrated a farm of Texas Instruments AM68-based devices containing the IMG BXS-4-64 GPU into Mesa’s upstream CI system.
- This allows us to quickly spot any regressions introduced in the previous day to keep our PowerVR open-source driver stable, reliable and conformant.
January 2026
January 2026
BeaglePlay board with Texas Instruments AM62 SoC is fully supported by upstreamed code
- Various Sascha Willems show running on our upstreamed open source drivers.
December 2025
December 2025
New merges prepare the open-source driver for more recent Imagination GPUs
- Imagination is putting in place what it needs to support Volcanic GPUs.
First Vulkan examples are running on the driver
- Various Sascha Willems show running on our upstreamed open source drivers.
October 2025
October 2025
Imagination open-source graphics driver adds support for Vulkan 1.2 & more GPUs
- PowerVR open-source graphics driver made available in Mesa 25.3.
- IMG AXE and IMG BXS GPUs supported.
- Both GPUs pass Khronos conformance for Vulkan 1.0.
- Vulkan 1.2 submissions to follow.
