Nvidia Has Been Supplying NDA'ed Docs to Red Hat for Helping NVK Driver
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- NVIDIA is providing NDA'ed documentation to Red Hat for NVK driver development.
- Red Hat engineer David Airlie highlights NVK's potential to compete with NVIDIA's proprietary Vulkan driver.
- NVK is an open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs, working with Nouveau or Nova kernel drivers.
- AMD's shift from AMDVLK to RADV in Mesa is seen as a model for NVK's development.
- Airlie notes NVIDIA's increasing cooperation, despite past issues, as a positive step for open-source drivers.
- Future benchmarks between NVK/Nova and NVIDIA's proprietary driver will be crucial for assessing progress.