Mesa 24.1-rc4 Backports NVK DRM Format Modifiers Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 24.1-rc4 Backports NVK DRM Format Modifiers Support

The Mesa 24.1 stable release is nearing while out today is the fourth weekly release candidate. While the Intel and AMD Radeon graphics driver changes typically dominate new Mesa releases, Mesa 24.1-rc4 is headlined by a big change for the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-rc4-Released

[luno]

does it require anything from kernel side ? is 6.8 is good enough or I need 6.9

[RejectModernity]

Classic. Unaffiliated developers doing all the work for a multibillion company.

[Kjell]

I'm happy we're all helping indie startups like NVIDIA to grow their small nonprofit business! ❤

[Rovano]

does it require anything from kernel side ? is 6.8 is good enough or I need 6.9

I would say that we are ready and just waiting, as long as we require an open source solution.

Otherwise, there is also a Vulkan driver directly from Nvidia.

Unfortunately, I still have MESA 24.2 news in my head (I would have written what, but I don't remember now), so I can only look forward to the future.