Reach out request, re distro support about amdvlk HOT 1 CLOSED

I am not the ideal contact, but will try and start the ball rolling here.
If possible, can you expand on which assets and information you need?

I don't have any experience with NixOS, so apologies in advance if my questions/comments miss the mark.
Are you asking about installing/repackaging existing binaries created for other distributions?
Or, building new packages from public sources?

Normally for binary distribution the user downloads a package file, like this one (for Ubuntu):
https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/23.40.2/ubuntu/focal/amdgpu-install_6.0.60002-1_all.deb

This installs a bash script called amdgpu-install, which when invoked adds package sources for kernel mode drivers (KMD) via DKMS, user mode drivers for APIs OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and X11/Xorg/Wayland drivers. More recently this can also add ROCm sources if required.
On Ubuntu the script then invokes apt to install combinations of packages based on the support the user requested.
You might want to review what amdgpu-install does if your intention is to port the existing binary packages.

Binary repackaging has been done by a few distributions, for example Gentoo.
Some useful information may be present in the relevant ebuilds:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/media-libs/amdgpu-pro-vulkan
Or GURU binary build:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/guru.git/tree/media-libs/amdvlk-bin

If you want to go the source route then Gentoo's GURU source build might also be a good starting point:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/guru.git/tree/media-libs/amdvlk

As an aside, it might be worth changing the title of this issue to "NixOS support" (or similar), if that is your goal.

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