Nouveau GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware integration that allows making use of NVIDIA’s binary GSP firmware on RTX 20 “Turing” and newer GPUs for having improved support. In turn this GSP route also provides initial support for GeForce RTX 40 series support.
tl;dr some preparation for hopefully better Nvidia open source driver support in the future
I’m wondering whether the open source nvk driver will work with exclusive nvidia features like DLSS.
CUDA probably won’t work either, just like AMD’s RADV doesn’t do the common compute APIs. Maybe they’ll support Vulkan compute, but that’s not as useful.
RADV is just the Vulkan driver to be clear, so the other APIs are implemented separately. ROCm is supported by some cards, and Rusticl is the currently most advanced OpenCL implementation in Mesa (with Clover on the way out). Vulkan compute is implemented in RADV, although I found it to be slightly slower than the AMDVLK implementation (AMD’s official Linux Vulkan driver, developed out of tree).
As for Nvidia, it’s likely to be a worse situation since Nvidia don’t have a bunch of open APIs, just closed ones. Vulkan compute I would expect at least, if not immediately.
As for CUDA, it might work if you’re willing to have a hybrid open/closed system. On AMD this is possible, where you can generally install and enable/disable the AMDGPU-PRO compute and Vulkan drivers on demand.