The tl;dr for those like me, who don’t understand the technical parts:

This week we merged support for the VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier extension in NVK, the new open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware. We’ve also back-ported the code to the Mesa 24.1 staging branch so it will be part of the upcoming Mesa 24.1 release.

DRM format modifier support is one of the most important features we’ve landed in NVK in a while. Though it’s not a very interesting feature to most Vulkan applications or game developers, it’s very important to the Linux display pipeline. Importantly to users, this is the last piece required to support GameScope. It’s also an important piece in making Zink+NVK a robust OpenGL solution.