Ekstrand: NVK update: Enabling new extensions, conformance status & more

[Posted June 27, 2023 by corbet]

Faith Ekstrand has provided an update on the status of the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs.

Probably the single most common question I get from folks is, "When will NVK be in upstream mesa?" The short answer is that it'll be upstreamed along with the new kernel API. The new API is going to be required in order to implement Vulkan correctly in a bunch of cases. Even though it mostly works on top of upstream nouveau, I don't want to be maintaining support for that interface for another 10 years when it only partially works.
We don't yet have an exact timetable for when the new API will be ready. I'm currently hoping that we get it all upstream this year but I can't say when exactly.

Ekstrand: NVK update: Enabling new extensions, conformance status & more

Posted Jun 27, 2023 20:55 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Mesa's been doing a a ton of cool stuff lately. Adding Vulkan to nouveau-supported cards, adding Vulkan to decade-old Radeon cards, ARM drivers that actually work, OpenCL 3.0 in Rusticl (I just hope it can run Folding@Home by the time winter rolls around!)

Having lived through the days where you were considered lucky if you got more than 80x25 at boot and a working desktop cube was a rare luxury, it's a lot. Big respect to everyone involved.