mesa 25.1 implements VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace and VK_EXT_hdr_metadata so that using HDR on mesa now does not require an additional Vulkan layer. However, while these extensions have long been implemented on the Windows driver, the NVIDIA Linux driver still does not implement them.
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