On Tue 04 Apr 2017, Keith Packard wrote: > Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net> writes: > > > Interesting question. To my knowledge, no one has actually implemented the > > Vulkan WSI direct-to-display extensions. (I tried to prevent them from > > getting released with 1.0 but failed.) I believe the correct answer is to > > use the external memory dma-buf stuff that chad and I have been using and > > talk directly to KMS. > > Sounds good, and minimizes the amount of code I have to write too :-)
I found an implementation. Nvidia's 2017-04-06 Linux driver release notes claim newly added support for VK_EXT_direct_mode_diplay, which is layered atop VK_KHR_display. http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/117741/en-us https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0-extensions/html/vkspec.html#VK_EXT_direct_mode_display > > I see no good reason to have a large abstraction in > > the middle. > > Other than 'it's a standard', neither do I. Yup. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
