Over the past year NVK has taken shape as a — currently out-of-tree — Mesa Vulkan driver for supporting NVIDIA graphics hardware. This open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver is inching closer to the point of being upstreamed into Mesa, but before it’s usable for gamers/enthusiasts there is kernel work that must happen too…

Source: Phoronix – Nouveau Kernel Driver Patches Begin Preparing For “NVK” Open-Source Vulkan Support