NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library

The open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver within the Mesa codebase has merged support for the important VK_EXT_shader_object and VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library extensions. Additionally, as part of supporting these new extensions, this introduces the code for a common Vulkan runtime to Mesa...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-ESO-GPL-Support

[simburde]

Just wondering what does ESO mean... Some kind of shader object?

[airminer]

Just wondering what does ESO mean... Some kind of shader object?

I think it just stands for EXT_SHADER_OBJECT.

[Britoid]

I'm amazed that in just a couple of years Nouveau will go from a driver that's only usable scenario is to open the nvidia driver website to being a full fledged driver.

I'll happily drop the nVidia blob

[NeoMorpheus]

Multi trillion company benefits from the free labor of its own abused customers.

lol

So glad that i dont need their hardware.