As introduced earlier this month, NVIDIA 515.48.07 is the primary steady model of NVIDIA’s graphics driver for UNIX programs to supply the supply code to a variant of the NVIDIA Linux kernel modules. The supply code is obtainable right here to tinkerers and has a twin license as MIT/GPLv2. For that, this launch provides a brand new “kernelopen” function tag to the supported-gpus.json file to point the NVIDIA GPUs which might be suitable with open-gpu-kernel-modules.
The brand new model additionally brings a number of enhancements, corresponding to assist for the VK_EXT_external_memory_dma_buf and VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier Vulkan extensions, which requires the loading of the nvidia-drm kernel module with DRM KMS mode setting enabled, improved efficiency of GLX and Vulkan apps operating in Gamescope, in addition to improved Vulkan swapchain creation failure reporting.
