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NVK is now ready for prime time (www.collabora.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Atemu@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Cool! I assume this this requires non-free binaries. Does anyone know specifics?

[–] aurtzy@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is the GSP firmware included in linux-firmware yet?

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, yes, it will come starting with Linux 6.8

[–] aurtzy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

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).

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 4 points 8 months ago

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