Firmware for supporting NVIDIA graphics cards included in the 6.7 branch of the Linux kernel. This solution will allow nouveau developers to generally not worry about reclocking for new graphics cards (starting from the 20xx (NV160 family (Turing) series of graphics cards to the latest 40xx ((Ada Lovelace))). By default, this feature will only be enabled for 40xx series graphics cards. If you want to try it for other generations of NVIDIA devices, you need to specify the parameter nouveau.config=NvGspRm=1 in the kernel boot parameters.
Quote from Nouveau developers:
As NVIDIA GSP firmware takes over GPU initialization and power management, this should simplify the launch of future generations of NVIDIA graphics processors. It is crucial that this should help improve power management / reclocking support for Nouveau drivers, which has not had good support since the GeForce GTX 700... However, do not expect Nouveau to suddenly become more performant compared to the proprietary driver.
There is a downside: this firmware contains even more closed-source blocks from NVIDIA, which are necessary for our open driver. Even worse, the firmware ABI is unstable; for example, the current NVIDIA driver code presented for Linux 6.7 is compatible with firmware distributed as part of the NVIDIA R535 driver series.
Second news from Nouveau: the NVK driver is now compatible with the Vulkan 1.0 specification. To operate, it requires a fresh kernel (at least 6.6) and mesa-git. It will work on graphics cards from the Turing to Ada Lovelace generation. If you have a previous generation graphics card, you might try to run Vulkan in test mode. There are no guarantees that it will work; artifacts may occur, and so on.
Primjer:
NVK_I_WANT_A_BROKEN_VULKAN_DRIVER=1 binarna datoteka
Citat:
This means that it passes all Vulkan 1.0 tests, but does not mean that it is ready for Linux gamers / enthusiasts or that it is a fast implementation. Not to mention that VKD3D-Proton requires support for at least Vulkan 1.3. Back in August, I published some initial tests of NVK. Since then, it has improved, but is still not suitable for Linux gamers with modern games. Just recently, the new NAK compiler has become another important step towards improving performance.
Izvor: linux.org.ru
