AMDVLK Driver Updated With Environment Variable To Enable Experimental Extensions

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDVLK Driver Updated With Environment Variable To Enable Experimental Extensions

AMD normally just does one code drop per week to their open-source "AMDVLK" Linux Vulkan driver code-base but now today marks the second time this week being greeted by new code. This latest release, v-2019.Q1.5, should provide for some fun weekend testing by Linux gamers preferring this driver over Mesa's RADV...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDVLK-Developing-Ext-Var

[tildearrow]

Typo:

Those currently experiemental extensions

[shmerl]

Built it and tried enabling with the environment variable. VK_EXT_transform_feedback is still missing both in vulkaninfo and in dxvk.

[shmerl]

I looked at the code. The way to enable it is not to set the variable to 1, but to list needed extensions you want to enable separated by space.

In this case this should do it:

export AMDVLK_ENABLE_DEVELOPING_EXT='VK_EXT_transform_feedback'

To enable all, use

export AMDVLK_ENABLE_DEVELOPING_EXT='all'

[skeevy420]

I looked at the code. The way to enable it is not to set the variable to 1, but to list needed extensions you want to enable separated by space.

In this case this should do it:

export AMDVLK_ENABLE_DEVELOPING_EXT='VK_EXT_transform_feedback'

To enable all, use

export AMDVLK_ENABLE_DEVELOPING_EXT='all'

That needs to be in the article.

[shmerl]

That needs to be in the article.

It's now mentioned in amdvlk readme: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/A...ster/README.md