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JohnEnigma Jul 26, 2023

NVK Merge Request Opened For Landing Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver In Mesa (Phoronix)

NVK Merge Request Opened For Landing Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver In Mesa (Phoronix) - Lemmy.world

[Faith] Ekstrand sums up the current feature state for NVK as: I won’t claim parity with RADV but we’ve got a pretty solid set at this point. My GSoC student (@mohamexiety) is most of the way through YCbCr and, once that’s done, we’ll be able to claim Vulkan 1.2 with reasonable confidence. We’ve also got a decent set of features on top of that. Not everything required for DXVK, VKD3D, and Zink, but we’ve got most of it. What remains is either annoying (lines) or is compiler heavy enough that I’d rather just get the new back-end compiler up and going than try to fix all the codegen bugs. ::: spoiler spoiler Also, kinda wish this community (instance?) would be a bit more active. :::

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phx Jul 26, 2023

I used to buy Nvidia cards, but since AMD providing support for teams building in-kernel drivers I’ve mostly walked away from team green.

Unfortunately when it comes to stuff like laptops the selection with AMD kit is a bit limited, do I do have one with an NVidia card there and it’s still a huge pain. In Linux I have to worry about the driver stub borking every time there’s a kernel update, and in Windows they seem to want you to login to their app to do damned updates.

I’m happy to see Nouveau getting better accelerated support but it would be even nicer if NVidia could step up to the plate themselves.

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JohnEnigma Jul 27, 2023

In a way, I think it’s also best if the community would work this driver out, because if Nvidia steps in and gets involved in this project, chances are that they might update their Linux kernel driver to become incompatible with Nouveau/NVK.

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phx Jul 27, 2023

Would that necessarily be bad. If they made a proper open-source Nvidia driver - similar to the in-kernel AMDGPU - then Nouveau could still build off that or be merged in to add functionality.

I don’t miss the old fglrx drivers now that AMDGPU is around.

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Molecular0079

Definitely would not mind having an AMDGPU equivalent for Nvidia. It’d be awesome if things like proprietary CUDA could be an optional installable package alongside an open graphics driver.