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NXP has published their 6.18-based kernel tree and while browsing it I have noticed that they apparently found a way to support custom horizontal strides with mxsfb (by using some undocumented leftover IP for EPDC panels that imx8mq doesn't support). This may be interesting as it potentially opens a way to use linear PE in with the 's internal screen, so the GPU could render directly to the scanout surface without having to resolve its tiled buffer to linear afterwards.

It's nothing new and has even been proposed for upstreaming years ago, but I wasn't aware until now. Apparently it broke some iMX7 platforms, but could still be something worth having downstream.

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