The Free Software Foundation has now determined that reverse-engineering the PowerVR Linux drivers in order to create a free software driver capable of 3D hardware acceleration is a high priority action item. With an increasing number of mobile devices running Linux bearing these PowerVR graphics chipsets, which currently require the use of binary blobs for graphics acceleration, is not acceptable and that action must be taken to create an open driver for this hardware.

Following a proposal last month of reverse-engineering the PowerVR SGX GPU to create a "free software OpenGL library", the Free Software Foundation has agreed this is a high priority project. "PowerVR is a popular 3D graphics engine found in phones, netbooks, and laptops, for which we currently have no free software driver capable of doing 3D graphics acceleration."

The Wiki page for this project outlines the goals as being to create a Gallium3D PowerVR driver called G3D-SGX, port the OpenGL 3.0 Mesa library to G3D-SGX (but no complete OpenGL 3.0 implementation is yet available for Mesa...), investigate compiling through LLVM (the Low-Level Virtual Machine) to take advantage of the multi-core SoC with the ARM Cortex A9 and other CPUs along with the vertex processing units and other co-processors on many of these SoCs.