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Most people hack stuff they have.
Also I thought nouveau is decent at older cards? They got Kepler supporting either vk1.3 or 1.4.
Also there is a driver for the the Mali gpu on the pinebook pro. The person who mainly worked on the Panfrost driver actually works at Intel now in their graphics driver division.
Also wtf is this Xtensa video chip. All I see of it is just a risc-v core/cpu for embedded stuff like Audio processing (Chromebook) and the pinebook pro uses an rk3399 which didn't even have one.