NVIDIA 396.24.02 Linux Driver Brings New Vulkan Extensions

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 396.24.02 Linux Driver Brings New Vulkan Extensions

The NVIDIA 396.24.02 Linux driver is available today and while it's a beta update, it ends up being quite an exciting release thanks to new Vulkan extensions...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-396.24.02-Vulkan

[tildearrow]

The best way to say minimum and maximum at once:

increasing the maxinimum bound descriptor sets

[tuke81]

VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count must be VK_AMD_draw_indirect_count promoted core KHR spec.

[boxie]

The best way to say minimum and maximum at once:

Bahaha - good call!

[theriddick]

I wonder if this includes fixes from the 396.18.11 driver?

Well it appears to work with xorg 1.20 so that's a improvement over 18.11.

[yossarianuk]

Does this fix crashing on boot with 396.x on Palit 1060 cards ?

i.e -> https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/t...bearing-min-/1


edit: Just seen the thread and no it doesn't.... Crap.