I think that's the most common view. There's also a "Vulkan isn't that different from Gallium3D so maybe it's time to update the Gallium3D API" view. It's probably safe to say that none of the initial Vulkan drivers will be using Gallium3D though.
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Originally posted by Imroy View PostI thought we already established that Vulkan won't be a part of Mesa and won't run on top of/through Gallium. It's at a lower level, so it will interface directly with the kernel DRM drivers. At least, that was my understanding of the recent discussion.
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Cool! But there's one thing I don't get: Noveau got started years after the foss radeon drivers and Noveau hasn't got official support from Nvidia (even though they don't oppose its development), so how can the Noveau drivers have passed radeon? The amd drivers even have internal manpower from AMD?! Plus all the docs are made public.
I'm an avid AMD supporter, thanks to their FOSS support, but I'm confused by the above.
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Originally posted by atomsymbol View Post
Those GPU docs are harder to read than Intel/AMD CPU documentation. The additional complexity contributes to lower adoption of low-level GPU programming.
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I think the quick answer is that Nouveau is not ahead except in the specific area of GL extensions, where the devs are doing a fantastic job. In the really nasty and time-consuming areas like power management I think it's fair to say that the radeon/amdgpu drivers are well ahead. Probably same goes for stability etc... but that is harder to measure.
The problem is that we have pretty charts for comparing GL extension support and no charts for comparing anything else, so it's easy to think the only metric that matters is GL support.Last edited by bridgman; 01 February 2016, 08:48 AM.Test signature
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostI think the quick answer is that Nouveau is not ahead except in the specific area of GL extensions, where the devs are doing a fantastic job. In the really time-consuming areas like power management I think it's fair to say that the radeon/amdgpu drivers are well ahead. Probably same goes for stability etc... but that is harder to measure.
The problem is that we have pretty charts for comparing GL extension support and no charts for comparing anything else, so it's easy to think the only metric that matters is GL support.
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