PanVK Advertises "Broken" Vulkan 1.1 Support With Mesa 25.0-devel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PanVK Advertises "Broken" Vulkan 1.1 Support With Mesa 25.0-devel

The PanVK open-source Vulkan API driver for Arm Mali graphics hardware within Mesa is now advertising Vulkan 1.1 support rather than Vulkan 1.0. But it's known to be "broken" so don't be too excited about it yet...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PanVK-Vulkan-1.1

[Quackdoc]

now to compile it for android and run on that xD

[Danny3]

No wonder considering how many changes it got in the past few weeks.
It would be so great if LineageOS at least could use it!

[You-]

Looking forward to this and future work.

After what seems like around 2 years with a Rock 5 lying around as a glorified coaster, I think everything should be upstream to allow it to be used directly from Fedora now (the gpu driver is in upstream kernel 6.13, and fedora has backported it to 6.12 for when those are released to stable, meaning support will also be present in Fedora 41, which might happen before the end of this month).

A risk though is missing features and known brokenness in drivers gives software like gtk4 the false confidence that the feature exists and is ready, which may cause buggy behaviour. But I suspect this known buggy behaviour will only be a short term issue.

[Quackdoc]

No wonder considering how many changes it got in the past few weeks.
It would be so great if LineageOS at least could use it!

the issue with panvk is you can't use kernel driver, as panvk only supports the upstream linux kernel driver, so SOL unless you compile a kernel, which on some devices wont be an issue, on others it will

[Danny3]

the issue with panvk is you can't use kernel driver, as panvk only supports the upstream linux kernel driver, so SOL unless you compile a kernel, which on some devices wont be an issue, on others it will

Oh, I forgot about the fact that Android uses very old kernels and Lineage and other custom ROMs are forced to do that too!
I knew that there was a little chance, but this makes it close to non-existant!

Fuck you Google for not wanting to fix this issue and always using ancient kernels in every Android release!

[Quackdoc]

Oh, I forgot about the fact that Android uses very old kernels and Lineage and other custom ROMs are forced to do that too!
I knew that there was a little chance, but this makes it close to non-existant!

Fuck you Google for not wanting to fix this issue and always using ancient kernels in every Android release!

its not about old kernel or not, but the actual gpu driver itself is completely different. most android phones could operate on mostly stock kernels if you didnt care about things like modem or camera.

[Danny3]

its not about old kernel or not, but the actual gpu driver itself is completely different. most android phones could operate on mostly stock kernels if you didnt care about things like modem or camera.

Then fuck Google for not wanting to fix that too by forcing the vendors with Android certification that requires they will open source their modem / camera drivers!
I understand that vendors might not want to continue supporting the drivers for their old devices to continue to work with new kernels, but if they were open source at least, somebody could continue to support them for newer kernels.
But Google doesn't give a fuck so the vendors don't give a fuck either.
Similar to how the government doesn't give a fuck either about the environment and the planned obsolescence.
Nobody gives a fuck and we are in the situation that we are.

[Quackdoc]

Then fuck Google for not wanting to fix that too by forcing the vendors with Android certification that requires they will open source their modem / camera drivers!
I understand that vendors might not want to continue supporting the drivers for their old devices to continue to work with new kernels, but if they were open source at least, somebody could continue to support them for newer kernels.
But Google doesn't give a fuck so the vendors don't give a fuck either.
Similar to how the government doesn't give a fuck either about the environment and the planned obsolescence.
Nobody gives a fuck and we are in the situation that we are.

That isn't really android's perogative. The best thing would be for mesa to support the android kernel module, much like they do for adreno. adreno supports both mainline kernel and kgsl, panvk needs to do the same.