As of today, NVK is now an officially conformant implementation of the Vulkan 1.0 API on NVIDIA Turing hardware.

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.

  • notfromhere@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    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.