RADV Vulkan Driver Now Supports NVIDIA's Device Generated Commands

[Venemo]

Was it something originally planned as Nvidia only? I.e. why wasn't it proposed as a common Vulkan extension?

It is common practice for a vendor to experiment with new technology in vendor-specific extensions. Creating a vendor-specific extension is much less work (not as strict as a cross-vendor extension where they have to cooperate with others). When others start picking up similar functionality, it can then be turned into a cross-vendor extension with a stricter spec that everyone can agree on. But that process is slow.

[arQon]

But that process is slow.

For all that the terms are nebulous to start, I think it's fair to say that a small portion *tends* towards slowness and there are always a couple of outliers that definitely count as slow - but I also think it's fair to say that the majority of extensions tend to be settled quickly, with activity on them in that time. Quite a few complete with remarkable speed. It's very much not your Daddy's Khronos.

[Venemo]

I also think it's fair to say that the majority of extensions tend to be settled quickly, with activity on them in that time. Quite a few complete with remarkable speed. It's very much not your Daddy's Khronos.

Which ones are you referring to?

[arQon]

Which ones are you referring to?

Not sure I understand the question, or the point of it, but I mean "All of them, in general, over the last several years".