Microsoft Announces Direct3D 12 For Linux / WSL2

[dragorth]

Why not just expose a vulkan interface, and maybe OpenGL if you're desperate? DX12 is dead.

Vulkan is not supported on all Windows 10 devices. DX12 is for all devices that support the WDDM 2.9 GPU devices, effectively at least.

They are using Mesa to create an OpenGL and OpenCL solution on top of this for the GUI apps later. They mention vulkan in the post, but didn't announce plans, only they are looking at it.

This post from the the Kernel mailing list describes some of the current highl evel problems with this driver, if it were to be included in the kernel. Microsoft can choose to just ship it with their Win 10 Kernel, and forgo all these issues, however.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2020-May/266642.html

Realistically, how hard will it be to simply tie this driver to the underlying GPUs and copy the DX12 .so files over to be used?

I envision this would actually be good in dev environments porting games over to Linux. It should make figuring out which bugs are because of the backend display issues vs the platform layer much easier. After all, if it is the same DX12 code, but your results are different, it could narrow down the scope you need to look for. This would be doubly useful for Game Engines, and others.

[Mario Junior]

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/foru...46#post1179446
Extend

>extinguish
>desktop linux
There was not much to extinguish to begin with though.

[sarfarazahmad]

>extinguish
>desktop linux
There was not much to extinguish to begin with though.

Weren't we just getting started ? proton, dvxk were kinda blurring the lines.

[tildearrow]

Last edited by Mez'; 05-19-2020, 01:22 PM. Reason: Why does the word "love" always have your messages unapproved? I don't understand how that word could be a threat to a forum.

The approval plugin bans the word "love" 'cuz it thinks it can prevent dating spam that way.

[tildearrow]

Why no vowels, is it written by Arabs?

ThtsxctlythWndwsfnctnnmcnvntn.

e.g. ntoskrnl, lpcstr...

[tildearrow]

I think they should go for a mesa frontend if they want to get rid of the translation layers to Vulkan. won't happen

Gallium-Twelve

[tildearrow]

>extinguish
>desktop linux
There was not much to extinguish to begin with though.

Extinguish the possibility.

[JustinTurdeau]

That's exactly the Windows function name convention.

e.g. ntoskrnl, lpcstr...

TIL "o" is not a vowel...

[Templar82]

Unless they hamstring the Linux version, it will probably run Windows apps better than Windows itself 😂😂😂

[microcode]

Fun, I guess that means there's infrastructure there to get a Vulkan library running too.