[setup] Add NVK support about winesapos HOT 10 CLOSED

Mesa 24.0 is now available in the Arch Linux repositories but NVK is still disabled and hidden behind an experimental build flag.

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Mesa 24.1 is slated to come out on 2024-05-01 which might finally enable NVK by default.

https://docs.mesa3d.org/release-calendar.html

As it is today, we can test with linux-t2 and vulkan-nouveau-git.

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Confirmed: NVK will be enabled by default in Mesa 24.1.0!

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-Conformant

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NVK recommends using Zink for OpenGL instead of nouveau.

$ sudo vim /etc/environment
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink
GALLIUM_DRIVER=zink

Eventually, older GPUs (Kepler through Maxell) will be fully supported. Until then, we can enable experimental support.

$ sudo vim /etc/environment
NVK_I_WANT_A_BROKEN_VULKAN_DRIVER=1

https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/nvk.html

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We need to change this line in our README.md file to include NVIDIA:

Open source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers are installed for AMD, Intel, VirtualBox, and VMware graphics.

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The GSP firmware can be enabled for all NVIDIA devices by setting this kernel boot argument: nouveau.config=NvGspRm=1

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2023-September/043193.html

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Since we are using Wayland by default now and the open source Mesa drivers for NVIDIA have greatly improved, we can remove the xf86-video-nouveau package from being installed in the winesapOS build.

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As mentioned here, NVK is now available in the official Arch Linux repositories as these two packages: vulkan-nouveau and lib32-vulkan-nouveau.

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Related to all this: nova is being worked on as a new kernel driver for NVIDIA as a successor to nouveau. For the NVIDIA open kernel module drivers, we should block it.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Nova-Rust-Abstractions

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I tested enabling Zink globally with NVK and that leads to a black screen. This is consistent with my previous testing, too.

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