Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Opens The Door For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC
Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Allows For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC Written by Michael Larabel in Nouveau on 31 July 2026 at 06:20 AM EDT. Add A Comment This week's round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver. Ready for introduction in the Linux 7.3 merge window is a Nouveau kernel driver patch by Red Hat's David Airlie to support allocating NVDEC channgels via the ABI16 interface.
- ▪Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Allows For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC Written by Michael Larabel in Nouveau on 31 July 2026 at 06:20 AM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment This week's round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver.
- ▪Ready for introduction in the Linux 7.3 merge window is a Nouveau kernel driver patch by Red Hat's David Airlie to support allocating NVDEC channgels via the ABI16 interface.
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Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Allows For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC Written by Michael Larabel in Nouveau on 31 July 2026 at 06:20 AM EDT. Add A Comment This week's round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver. Ready for introduction in the Linux 7.3 merge window is a Nouveau kernel driver patch by Red Hat's David Airlie to support allocating NVDEC channgels via the ABI16 interface. This Nouveau kernel driver change to support NVIDIA video decoding (NVDEC) channel allocations in turn will be used by the Mesa NVK driver for Vulkan Video. There is this pending Mesa merge request dependent upon the Nouveau kernel driver patch.
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