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autumn @froggi.es · 21h

After about 3 days of work, I got DLSS to work on NVK (the open source NVIDIA driver in Mesa)! 🎉

DLSS is essentially just some launched Cuda kernels, so it was just a matter of implementing the VK_NVX_binary_import and VK_NVX_image_view_handle extensions.

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(Control, 960x540 -> 1920x1080)

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autumn @froggi.es · 9h

I did on the other platforms, I forgot when posting to Bluesky. It doesn't let me change it after the fact.

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autumn @froggi.es · 21h

(also special thanks to Mary for helping me find the smem in the qmd thing despite the kernel launch at first glance not appearing to specify any)

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autumn @froggi.es · 21h

The code is not ready to land yet (lots of clean-ups needed!), but it's working now in Control!

For those who read, here is a picture of the initial froggy sample app and kernel I wrote to test the extensions before delving into the extra bits that DLSS needs to work. ;D

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autumn @froggi.es · 21h

The surface area is mostly in the parsing of the cubins, the actual dispatch code is tiny!

ATM, it only supports DLSS versions that have code compiled for the GPU you are using. If you try and run old DLSS on a new GPU, that won't work currently.
PTX->NIR is much harder.

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autumn @froggi.es · 21h

multiple sections an ELF where some of the metadata is ordinal-based and some of it is name-based and oh, the ELF is also inside another container of ELFs (elves?).

But once you parse all that out, it's actually not *that* bad.

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autumn @froggi.es · 21h

These extensions are used by DXVK and VKD3D-Proton via. DXVK-NVAPI to implement DLSS.

Although, that alone was not an easy feat because the surface area of Cuda is pretty huge and parsing the cubins is difficult as there's these weirdly packed attributes spread across-

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autumn @froggi.es · 21h

After about 3 days of work, I got DLSS to work on NVK (the open source NVIDIA driver in Mesa)! 🎉

DLSS is essentially just some launched Cuda kernels, so it was just a matter of implementing the VK_NVX_binary_import and VK_NVX_image_view_handle extensions.

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(Control, 960x540 -> 1920x1080)

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autumn @froggi.es · 21d

one of them =)

autumn @froggi.es · 23d

st. rat

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autumn @froggi.es · Sep 11

Currently visiting Seattle for a bit. If you're around and want to say hi, DM me! 🐸✨

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autumn @froggi.es · Sep 1

Not once have I ever wanted clangd to insert headers into my code, or touch it in ANY way.

Stop doing that! WHY IS THAT DEFAULT?!

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autumn @froggi.es · Sep 1

I see. Bluesky does not allow people in the UK to see DMs.

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autumn @froggi.es · Sep 1

@sourdani.dev You sent me something but I cannot see it as I am in the UK and Bluesky are stupid

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Emma (IPG) @invoxiplaygames.uk · Aug 30

thinking about this all-time favourite GNOME Moment

A GitLab issue tracker comment from an anonymised maintainer on GNOME Music, the issue suggests adding a volume slider and the comment was "Why do you think a volume control is necessary?"

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autumn @froggi.es · Aug 27

my hot take is that the majority of desktop applications (not games) shouldn't need to be and should not be "rendering" anything.

simply forwarding their scene graphs to the higher level compositor which can do a much better job.

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autumn @froggi.es · Aug 26

what

autumn @froggi.es · Aug 26

Google is a bad keeper of Android. The new "you need to give Google your ID for sideloadable apps" thing is a huge and disgusting overstep.

I wish there was a serious, properly funded, open-source competitor in the phone space.

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syzygy @lumierebelge.bsky.social · Aug 4

this drawing I made of a frog is considered unanimously as one of the greatest drawings of our century

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Rie @megu.dev · Aug 1

reminder that if you're British, you should sign the petition to stop the privacy violation that is the Online Safety Act petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

petition.parliament.uk

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · Jul 29

ah yeah the familiar whiplash of seeing a legacy media org cover something you're an actual expert in and realizing "oh if this is how badly they're fucking up this, how badly are they fucking up every other topic?"

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · Jul 29

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

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autumn @froggi.es · Jul 28

none.

autumn @froggi.es · Jul 28

windows 11 has no swag.

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autumn @froggi.es · Jul 27

that would still suck

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autumn @froggi.es · Jul 27

i disagree with the idea of ever having to show my ID to random websites to view content. puritanism is fascism in disguise, websites are already blocking things that are gay or related to war/conflict.

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