Zink's OpenGL Over Vulkan Implementation Aiming For Mesa 19.3 Integration

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Zink's OpenGL Over Vulkan Implementation Aiming For Mesa 19.3 Integration

For the past year "Zink" has been in development as the OpenGL API implemented over Vulkan and done as a Gallium3D driver. That code by Collabora's Erik Faye-Lund will likely be merged to Mesa 19.3 in the coming weeks...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zink-OpenGL-Vulkan-Mesa-19.3

[tildearrow]

Michael notice: the thread for AMDGPU Performance In Linux 5.4 Is Now Faster With "Bulk Moves" Landed is missing.
I just wanted to point out a typo in that article:

The wine can be quite noticeable and

Let's celebrate then!

[randomsalad]

this means it could end up in Mesa 19.3 with its feature cut-off in February and the official Mesa 19.3 release likely out in early December.

I'm afraid I don't follow. Is the 19.3 release happening this year, as implied by the version number, then the feature cut-off has either already happened or it's not happening in "February".

[R41N3R]

This would be fantastic! Can't wait to test it again.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

Erik has sent out some prepatory patches to Mesa

[uid313]

This means that if a device driver implements support for Vulkan, then it also gets support for OpenGL for free?

[asdfgh]

This means that if a device driver implements support for Vulkan, then it also gets support for OpenGL for free?

Nope, at least now. See https://twitter.com/oscarbg81/status...08754886647808. It doesn't work with proprietary nv stuff.

[Meteorhead]

It doesn't work with proprietary nv stuff.

I think the main focus of Mesa projects are to be self-contained so that they work well together. Nouveau might be a more reasonable target. Don't know if it has any Vulkan capabilities or not.

If only clvk/clspv would make it into mesa, RADV could drive Vulkan/OpenGL/OpenCL/SYCL and all their interop layers.

[murraytony]

Vulkan is really turning out to be a boon.

[microcode]

Very cool, I hope to see the market for custom GL drivers to dry up quickly.