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NVK Driver Lands New Platform Abstraction - Working Toward Allowing Other Kernel Drivers
Merged for Mesa 24.2 is a massive set of patches providing a new platform abstraction for NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver
Merged for Mesa 24.2 is a massive set of patches providing a new platform abstraction for NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. Faith Ekstrand of Collabora has been working through the nearly four dozen patches touching several thousand lines of code for NVK. This abstraction doesn't leak any DRM or nouveau.ko details into the driver, allowing us to potentially add winsys implementations to run on other kernels.
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