[enhancement] Support Vulkan

[Emanuele Antonio Faraone]

full support to the libraries vulkan in mir and in canonical system image.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

We do aim to support Vulkan. But you have to be careful what you wish for...

Vulkan clients/apps: Absolutely. Let's support getting them on screen as soon as possible.

Vulkan-rendered shells: Not a major priority. Mir already has a shortage of usable shells written for it. And they are all OpenGL based right now. For the foreseeable future we need to focus on building shells that lots of people in the real world have the hardware to run.

[Emanuele Antonio Faraone (emanueleant03)]

Is expected for 16.04?

[Cemil Azizoglu (cemil-azizoglu)]

We don't have a specific target. We have most of the plumbing either landed or MP'ed already. As soon as final set of MPs land, the Vulkan effort can be started and should take weeks not months.

[Emanuele Antonio Faraone (emanueleant03)]

at what point is integration?

[Cemil Azizoglu (cemil-azizoglu)]

Initial Vulkan (Mesa) integration was done a few weeks ago but it uses some private headers. There were a few new Mir interfaces that have yet to be published. Once they are published in the dev trunk, they will then go out on an official release (0.24)? Vulkan Mesa support can then be finalized and upstreamed.

[Benjamin Zeller (zeller-benjamin)]

There is nothing the Ubuntu-SDK-IDE can do about this.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I think comment #5 is out of date now. Got any newer news?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Oh I forgot the Vulkan work is based on NBS. And NBS only just got turned on in Mir releases 0.23.5 and 0.24.0.

Was that the only blocker?

[Cemil Azizoglu (cemil-azizoglu)]

NBS headers are still private.

[Emanuele Antonio Faraone (emanueleant03)]

And now?

[Emanuele Antonio Faraone (emanueleant03)]

?

[Cemil Azizoglu (cemil-azizoglu)]

I don't have an official date for Vulkan support but estimate that we are still some months away. We are currently revamping our surface objects for Vulkan and Mesa integration as well as Mir Version 1.0 release.

[Cemil Azizoglu (cemil-azizoglu)]

A Vulkan patch for Mir WSI support for the Intel driver in Mesa has been incorporated as a distro patch. Should be landing in Zesty soon.

This support is preliminary/experimental and should be considered pre-alpha.

[Emanuele Antonio Faraone (emanueleant03)]

Any news?

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Syncing task from Mir.