NVK is now ready for prime time
NVK is now ready for prime time
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Cool! I assume this this requires non-free binaries. Does anyone know specifics?
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NVK itself is not dependent on anything proprietary, but it's practically required to enable NVIDIA's GSP firmware blob if you want to see actual performance since it's what enables re-clocking (older post by Collabora here which touches on it).
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Is the GSP firmware included in
linux-firmwareyet?-
IIRC, yes, it will come starting with Linux 6.8
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Slight correction, it's available in Linux 6.7, and has to be enabled with the kernel parameter
nouveau.config=NvGspRm=1. It may be enabled by default soon though (latest news I could find about that here).
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NVK is a new fully open source driver for Nvidia GPUs. Derived from documentation & official FOSS code drops from Nvidia, unlike the legacy Nouveau driver which was mostly the product of reverse engineering proprietary drivers.
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Looking at the AUR package, it doesn't look like there's any binary dependencies: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vulkan-nouveau-git?all_deps=1#pkgdeps
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