All of the media subsystem driver updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel and brings some new work around AV1 acceleration as well as other driver updates.

The merged code for the media feature updates in Linux 7.0 include introducing the TI VIP driver, adding support to the MGB4 driver for GMSL1 and GMSL‑coax modules, new camera sensor drivers, the Synopsys CSI‑2 receiver driver, VeriSilicon and Rockchip RKVDEC video driver improvements, Intel IPU6 / IPU7 image processing fixes, and also AV1 kernel support in the media subsystem.

The TI VIP driver is for the Texas Instruments Video Input Port found on their DRA7xx, AM5x, and other hardware as a video source for sensor(s) or TV decoder.