NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance (www.collabora.com)
from Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de to linux@lemmy.ml on 20 Nov 2023 18:43
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6595566

What does this mean? Practically, it means that we can pass the entire Vulkan conformance test suite.

There will still be bugs, of course, but those bugs are likely to be app-specific.

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noddy@beehaw.org on 20 Nov 2023 19:52 next collapse

Next goal then would be vulkan 1.3 such that DXVK would work.

warmaster@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 2023 21:23 next collapse

One step closer for the FOSS drivers to be a real alternative.

pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 21 Nov 2023 03:00 next collapse

I’ve been hearing about this a lot. How would this NVK relate to nouveau driver?

notfromhere@lemmy.one on 21 Nov 2023 05:19 next collapse

Apparently this is a new driver which uses the open source headers and Linux kernel modules from nVidia’s proprietary drivers, and it doesn’t borrow very much from nouveau driver because that one has different names for things in their headers due to the clean room reverse engineering aspect of nouveau. Although I am not an expert on this so I could be wrong.

Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de on 21 Nov 2023 16:28 collapse

NVK is a Vulkan driver while nouveau is an OpenGL driver. If I understand correctly there’s also a nouveau kernel module which interfaces with the userspace nouveau, but NVK might use another API. [1]

[1] www.collabora.com/…/introducing-nvk.html

AlijahTheMediocre@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 13:27 collapse

How far back will the NVK driver support?

Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de on 21 Nov 2023 16:32 collapse

What hardware does NVK support?

We currently support Turing (RTX 20XX and GTX 16XX) and later GPUs. We plan to eventually support hardware as far back as Kepler (GeForce 600 and 700 series) but those are currently poorly tested at best and missing a few essential features.

www.collabora.com/…/nvk-has-landed.html