Nvidia Vulkan ICD supports on FreeBSD

[Ka Ho Ng]

Opps, the first link should be
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/request-compile-vulkan-supports-in-freebsd-solaris-version-of-the-driver/118594

Ka Ho

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:03 PM Ka Ho Ng <khng300 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Nvidia drivers for FreeBSD now only comes with OpenGL ICD (GLX and
> EGL), without Vulkan supports. I have created a thread on the
> FreeBSD/Solaris board related to Vulkan ICD supports on FreeBSD and/or
> Solaris. Also there is an existing thread asking for the support of
> Vulkan on FreeBSD. If anyone also wants Vulkan support we might reply
> to these threads.
>
> 1. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/a-modest-plea-to-add-vulkan-to-the-freebsd-graphics-driver/107149
> 2. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/a-modest-plea-to-add-vulkan-to-the-freebsd-graphics-driver/107149
>
> Without native ICD we currently rely on
> https://github.com/shkhln/nvshim which seems potentially unsafe to
> use, though it works usually. Thus I created a thread on their forum
> to ask for such support. I have no idea what actually misses in order
> to support Vulkan on FreeBSD, despite nvshim works for some of the
> applications I tested such as vkcube.
>
> Ka Ho