NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support

Written by Michael Larabel in NVIDIA on 1 April 2026 at 03:56 PM EDT. 10 Comments

Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions.

NVIDIA published a R595-derived driver build that provides a preview implementation of the Color Pipeline API for letting Wayland compositors leverage GPU display hardware capabilities for accelerating color processing like HDR.

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This DRM Color Pipeline API support will eventually make it into an official NVIDIA Linux driver build but for now is coming out early in preview form for helping Wayland compositor developers test it and adapt to make use of the NVIDIA driver capabilities.

Those interested in this NVIDIA DRM Color Pipeline API support can find out all the details and download the preview build via the NVIDIA Developer Forum.

There is a disclosure that this DRM Color Pipeline API feature for the NVIDIA driver was assisted via AI/LLMs:

"During development, we used Claude Sonnet/Opus to dramatically reduce the time required to create production quality code. Nearly all of the code was produced by the model, but with a strong emphasis on explicit human direction, review, and iteration."