Vulkan 1.0

[Luca Boccassi]

On 17 February 2016 at 09:43, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> more work to do :-)
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=vulkan-10&num=1
> https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
> https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-LoaderAndValidationLayers
> https://bugs.debian.org/814922

Yay :-)

I had a brief look, it seems the beta version of the Nvidia driver
builds off 355 (355.00.26) and as such is older than the version we
have in experimental. Also they are not shipping any vulkan-specific
library, like the loader, but everything goes through libGL.so, at
least for now. I would guess a more stable version will pop up in 361+
soon.

Given this, and given the Mesa folks will take care of vulkan-loader,
we are not in a bad position :-) If we can manage to do the remaining
work on 358/361 and have them in experimental, we could provide a
vulkan-enabled driver in experimental pretty quickly once it's out in
the stable branch.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi