NVIDIA Open-Source Linux NVK Driver Gets Experimental DLSS Support (opens in new tab)

The open-source, community-driven NVIDIA Linux driver stack has been on a constant march towards feature-parity with the proprietary NVIDIA driver. The latest news in Mesa driver stack comes by way of NVK, the open-source NVK Vulkan driver, which recently merged support for DLSS support on NVIDIA GPUs. As reported by Phoronix, the pull request will see DLSS support merge into Mesa 26.2 via the VK_NVX_binary_import binary extension, which is slated to launch in the stable update in August 2026...