Is there a description somewhere of what problem this solves? I'm having trouble grokking why this is useful.
Best, Alex On Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 12:54:20 AM UTC+5:30 Chromestatus wrote: > Contact emails geoffl...@google.com > > Explainer None > > Specification > https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/commit/b39d86d356eb759d7564bc7c808ca62fce8bbf3e > > > Summary > > Adds an optional field to WebGPU texture view creation to request a subset > of the usage flags from the source texture. By default, texture view usage > inherits from the source texture but there are view formats which can be > incompatible with the full set of inherited usages. Adding a usage field to > texture view creation allows the user request a subset of the source > texture's usages that are valid with the view format and specific to their > intended usage of the texture view. WebGPU implementations can also > optimize the creation of low level resources and improve performance when > using views with more specialized usage flags. > > > Blink component Blink>WebGPU > <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EWebGPU> > > TAG review None > > TAG review status Not applicable > > Risks > > > Interoperability and Compatibility > > This feature has been approved in W3C GPU for the Web WG meetings > including participants from Safari and Firefox: > https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/GPU-Web-2024-07-24#createtexture-does-not-validate-viewformats-against-usage-4426 > > > *Gecko*: No signal > > *WebKit*: Closed Without a Position ( > https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/294#issuecomment-1877411933) > > > > *Web developers*: No signals > > *Other signals*: > > WebView application risks > > Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that > it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? > > None > > > Debuggability > > None > > > Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, > Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)? No > > All platforms will eventually have support. Will immediately be available > on Android, Android WebView, ChromeOS, Mac, and Windows, where hardware > support is available. Linux is planned to have WebGPU support in the > future, so this feature will become available when WebGPU does. > > > Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests > <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> > ? Yes > > WebGPU/WGSL have a conformance test suite (https://github.com/gpuweb/cts) > that is regularly pulled into Chromium and part of the testing of Dawn/Tint > in Chromium. While the CTS can be embedded in WPT, the WebGPU team opted to > keep it separate in Chromium testing to use a customized harness for > robustness and performance. Tests were added in this PR: > https://github.com/gpuweb/cts/commit/1746bcbc10a809cbadb3b131675b885ed08d9da5 > > > Flag name on chrome://flags None > > Finch feature name WebGPU.Enabled:UnsafeFeatures > > Requires code in //chrome? False > > Tracking bug https://bugs.chromium.org/363903526 > > Estimated milestones > > No milestones specified > > > Anticipated spec changes > > Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or > interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues > in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may > introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of > the API in a non-backward-compatible way). > None > > Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status > https://chromestatus.com/feature/5155252832305152?gate=5152335609987072 > > This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status > <https://chromestatus.com>. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/99c4a014-91e0-4f38-9ec8-f91de2f17be4n%40chromium.org.
