[RFC PATCH 0/4] DirectX on Linux

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at inai.de
Wed May 20 10:37:25 UTC 2020


On Tuesday 2020-05-19 22:36, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
>> - Why DX12 on linux? Looking at this feels like classic divide and
>
> There is a single usecase for this: WSL2 developer who wants to run
> machine learning on his GPU. The developer is working on his laptop,
> which is running Windows and that laptop has a single GPU that Windows
> is using.

It does not feel right conceptually. If the target is a Windows API
(DX12/ML), why bother with Linux environments? Make it a Windows executable,
thereby skipping the WSL translation layer and passthrough.


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