VA-API's Libva 2.18 Released With Windows WSL D3D12 Support, Optional Disabling DRI3

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VA-API's Libva 2.18 Released With Windows WSL D3D12 Support, Optional Disabling DRI3

Version 2.18 of the VA-API library, libva, has been released today for this Linux Video Acceleration API library that is used by the various driver implementations...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/VA-API-libva-2.18

[pieman]

i'd love to see microsoft release direct x as completely open source. along with opening up win32 api. with them moving heavily towards software as a service i don't see the point in keeping everything closed source.

[mirmirmir]

Microsoft ♥️ Linux
Calling out Nvidia to do the same

[Volta]

Ability to run Linux on windows is an only positive thing about windows.

[loganj]

MS should discard windows and focus on linux only. port their close source dx and whatever and focus on linux only.

[V1tol]

Ability to run Linux on windows is an only positive thing about windows.

Unfortunately this questions Linux as a desktop OS. And we want Linux to win in this competition.

[Quackdoc]

Unfortunately this questions Linux as a desktop OS. And we want Linux to win in this competition.

I dont see it happening for a long time, I hope cosmic can change my mind though

i'd love to see microsoft release direct x as completely open source. along with opening up win32 api. with them moving heavily towards software as a service i don't see the point in keeping everything closed source.

I doubt they ever will considering that directX makes up their entire graphics stack, D3Dx is their 3d stack, and there is at least open source D3D9/10 implementations, IIRC D3D11 is an incremental upgrade to D3D10, so if that gets done, we are just missing the D3D12 support

Microsoft ♥️ Linux
Calling out Nvidia to do the same

they already are with their nvidia open kernel drivers, NVK is looking very promising

[mirmirmir]

they already are with their nvidia open kernel drivers, NVK is looking very promising

It's radhat, Nvidia don't help anything with linux

[andreduartesp]

It's radhat, Nvidia don't help anything with linux

Redhat? Who in here (https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules) works at Red Hat? I didn't find anybody.

Any hardware produced by NVidia I have I can use with Linux (even old ones from 2004/2005), the same is not true about some old AMD hardware.

[Quackdoc]

Redhat? Who in here (https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules) works at Red Hat? I didn't find anybody.

Any hardware produced by NVidia I have I can use with Linux (even old ones from 2004/2005), the same is not true about some old AMD hardware.

Indeed, though I think they were probably talking about NVK, but I argue that without the open drivers, NVK wouldnt be worth much anyway to the average user