New Vulkan Extension Proposed To Help In Emulating AMD's Old Mantle API

[Nille_kungen]

GRVK readme at github describes it like: GRVK is a Mantle to Vulkan translation layer.
The project do seem to be about reviving Mantle: This project is an attempt to revive Mantle and make it run everywhere.

https://github.com/libcg/grvk

[ZuseZ4]

I'm surely glad that we had Mantle as it paved the way for Vulkan, but is it really worth the effort for those like .. 3(?) games?

[V1tol]

Maybe someone just love BF4 or DA:I

[Termy]

How the Hell does one arrive at GRVK for a mantle to vulkan effort?

[Inopia]

One api to rule them all...

[loganj]

such a useless effort

[phoronix]

Phoronix: New Vulkan Extension Proposed To Help In Emulating AMD's Old Mantle API

Besides the efforts out there for implementing the likes of Direct3D, OpenCL, and OpenGL on top of Vulkan, there does still exist the hobbyist project for implementing AMD's Mantle API atop Vulkan for which the Khronos API was originally based. A new Vulkan extension is now being proposed to help in that Mantle-on-Vulkan effort...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VK_MESA_rect_list-RFC