Zink Merged Into Mesa 19.3 For Offering OpenGL Over Vulkan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Zink Merged Into Mesa 19.3 For Offering OpenGL Over Vulkan

The Zink Gallium3D code for running OpenGL / OpenGL ES over Vulkan has now been merged into the Mesa 19.3 development code...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zink-Merged-Mesa-19.3

[FireBurn]

Does this work with the non-Mesa Vulkan drivers? Or just Mesa ones?

[R41N3R]

Fantastic, can't wait to test it. Hope it will be provided soon as an AUR package or in the mesa-git repository of Arch Linux :-)

[boxie]

Does this work with the non-Mesa Vulkan drivers? Or just Mesa ones?

it appears that the requirements are "A vulkan 1.0 driver with a couple of extensions", at least at time of introduction https://www.collabora.com/news-and-b...tation-vulkan/

[skeevy420]

Fantastic, can't wait to test it. Hope it will be provided soon as an AUR package or in the mesa-git repository of Arch Linux :-)

AFAICT, we only need to edit the mesa-git PKGBUILD and add zink to the end of this line (#104)

        -D gallium-drivers=r300,r600,radeonsi,nouveau,svga,swrast,virgl,iris[B],zink[/B] \

EDIT: Read boxie's link and, in addition to the above tweak, we also need to

Install the driver somewhere appropriate, and use the $MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE environment variable to force the zink-driver. From here you should be able to run many OpenGL applications using Zink

[ihatemichael]

Just curious, but would this make it possible to use Glamor over Vulkan?

[torbido]

How to use it?

[skeevy420]

How to use it?

Read post #5

[lowenz]

Please, for Windows 32/64 too!

[betam4x]

I'm rather curious as to if there are any actual performance improvements vs native OpenGL applications, particularly where a non-Mesa driver is involved, such as NVIDIA's. I know some games that have very poor ports to Linux via OpenGL that could use all the help they can get. Running these games under Proton (DX11 -> Vulkan) often results in the game running far faster.