[Mesa-dev] Vulkan extensions

[Bas Nieuwenhuizen]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 September 2017 at 09:12, Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-09-14 15:36:10, Romain Failliot wrote:
>>> Le 14 sept. 2017 6:11 PM, "Bas Nieuwenhuizen" <bas at basnieuwenhuizen.nl> a
>>> écrit :
>>>
>>> > For vulkan, because 1.0 is the initial version, there are no
>>> > extensions to implement to get to that version, so having an
>>> > extensions list would be nonsensical.
>>>
>>> I don't think it is nonsensical, say the nouveau devs starts to work on a
>>> Vulkan 1.0 driver and they'd like to show their progress in features.txt. I
>>> think it would be interesting for them to have the list of extensions to
>>> implement to be Vulkan 1.0 compliant, so they could flag which extensions
>>> are done, in progress or not started.
>>
>> That would be fine, except I don't think the 1.0 features are bucketed
>> into a set of 'extensions'. Right? I thought 1.0 was the baseline, and
>> extensions were built upon that.
>>
>
> I think Romain missed Bas's point. There is no extension list to get to 1.0.
> 1.0 is step one. The closest thing is probably the device features list,
> and even that you don't expect any device to fill all of it, so what 100% is
> differs for every device.
>
> Dave.