[HN Gopher] Nvidia open source driver to use NVK and Zink for Op...
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       Nvidia open source driver to use NVK and Zink for OpenGL on newer
       GPUs
        
       Author : mfilion
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2024-02-23 19:11 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.gamingonlinux.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.gamingonlinux.com)
        
       | shmerl wrote:
       | Nice, hopefully Linux gamers with Nvidia GPUs will be able to
       | replace Nvidia's blob soon enough with nouveau + nvk + zink.
        
       | 0xcde4c3db wrote:
       | Last time I looked into using nouveau (ca. 2018-2019), there was
       | an issue with the Nvidia firmware (some kind of DRM?) that
       | prevented implementation of proper power management support on
       | recent generations, which made it nearly useless for GPU-heavy
       | applications. Has that changed?
        
         | fngjdflmdflg wrote:
         | I believe that is the point on NVK.
        
         | PlutoIsAPlanet wrote:
         | Yes, on newer Nvidia GPUs, power management etc is delegated to
         | an on die RISC-V that runs its own firmware blob. Effectively
         | they've moved the kernel driver to the GPU.
         | 
         | Nvidia when open sourcing their kernel driver, showed how to
         | communicate with this blob, so Nouveau have done the same.
        
           | 0xcde4c3db wrote:
           | I don't see a definitive list anywhere, but it looks like
           | "newer" roughly means RTX 20 series and later? I'm a little
           | disappointed that I can't migrate the older card in my HTPC
           | (ironically, it has a power management issue with the latest
           | Nvidia driver), but I'm glad there's a path forward for
           | nouveau.
        
             | ewzimm wrote:
             | It's actually much older, the 700 series from 2013 were the
             | last to ship without signed firmware. 2013 also happened to
             | be the year of the last AMD CPUs without the PSP, so my
             | all-free software computer is still stuck in that year
             | until RISC-V improves.
        
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