Vulkan WSI+VK_KHR_display for KMS/DRM?

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Apr 3 19:56:55 UTC 2017


Chad Versace <chadversary at chromium.org> writes:

> The real path forward should be implemented on top of
> VK_KHX_external_memory. If you want to start experimenting now with
> Vulkan+KMS, you may want to look at
> VK_EXTERNAL_MEMORY_HANDLE_OPAQUE_FD_KHX.

It seems like the Vulkan spec for WSI with devices has a bunch of what I
would need to implement in a standard fashion; I guess I'm unclear
whether I should go down the route of wrapping all of DRM/KMS in a WSI
layer, or use some of this lower-level stuff directly from the
application instead?

-- 
-keith
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