Any news for pandaboard's graphic support (PowerVR SGX540)

[fabma]

I've just installed Arch on my Pandaboard in order to use it as an media center based on XBMC. I've never succeeded this with a recent version of ubuntu.
The information about the graphics support I found are all very old, like this: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1595
I wonder if there is any progress in the sgx450 driver? Are there any others SoCs with this chips?

[summers]

IIRC there has been some recent work on the GMA500 driver in the main kernel. This is the same graphics chip - but in an intel atom. Now much of the GMA500 driver is set up to work on the intel chip - so it doesn't work on the TI chip. However I wonder if any of the recent development on GMA500 (which IIRC was 2d acceleration) has ended up reverse engineering some of the PowerVR interface and programming .....

If so - maybe it can be ported to the TI chip.

Lots of ifs and buts here though ....