[Faith] Ekstrand sums up the current feature state for NVK as:
I won’t claim parity with RADV but we’ve got a pretty solid set at this point. My GSoC student (@mohamexiety) is most of the way through YCbCr and, once that’s done, we’ll be able to claim Vulkan 1.2 with reasonable confidence. We’ve also got a decent set of features on top of that. Not everything required for DXVK, VKD3D, and Zink, but we’ve got most of it. What remains is either annoying (lines) or is compiler heavy enough that I’d rather just get the new back-end compiler up and going than try to fix all the codegen bugs.
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Also, kinda wish this community (instance?) would be a bit more active.
I used to buy Nvidia cards, but since AMD providing support for teams building in-kernel drivers I’ve mostly walked away from team green.
Unfortunately when it comes to stuff like laptops the selection with AMD kit is a bit limited, do I do have one with an NVidia card there and it’s still a huge pain. In Linux I have to worry about the driver stub borking every time there’s a kernel update, and in Windows they seem to want you to login to their app to do damned updates.
I’m happy to see Nouveau getting better accelerated support but it would be even nicer if NVidia could step up to the plate themselves.
Tbh all nVidia should’ve done was to make their firmware available and easily redistributable. Them locking down their hardware down to the firmware level is what killed the development of Nouveau.
They don’t need to step up to the plate, just don’t block the guys who are willing to do the necessary work themselves
Didn’t they recently unblock that around the time they released their open kernel module?
Yes, but that license change took them quite a while after the first release of the open kernel module, and still, that’s only for the GSP firmware. Nothing of the sort is the case for the PMU firmware that could be used for Maxwell and Pascal*.
(*Fun fact, there is actually some code for power management for Maxwell series at least (not upstreamed I presume), Nouveau devs even demonstrated NVK via playing Hollow Knight on a GTX950m, which ran the game pretty smoothly, the main issue seems to be not being able to control the fans of the GPU due to the firmware, something that was not really a problem for the particular laptop they’ve done the demonstration on)
Edit: My bad, it was a GTX980m instead: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gfxstrand/110311684373260454
