Etnaviv NPU Driver Support Working Well For The NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC

Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso who has been working on supporting Vivante NPU IP within the reverse-engineered Etnaviv driver has been much time recently focused on enabling the Vivante NPU found within the NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC. While not yet upstreamed, he's been successful in this effort and seeing good performance for object detection with this hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Etnaviv-NPU-Performing-iMX8MP

Intel Vulkan Driver Merges H.264/H.265 Video Encode Support

The open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa is now more capable for its Vulkan Video support with the H.264 and H.265 encode support now wired up for Mesa 24.3...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-Video-H264-H265