[Mesa-dev] How about vulkan status in Mesa

[Yuan, Feng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Palli, Tapani
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 3:15 PM
> 
> On 04/11/2018 10:04 AM, Yuan, Feng wrote:
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mesa-dev [mailto:mesa-dev-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On
> >> Behalf Of Tapani Pälli
> >>
> >> On 04/11/2018 09:01 AM, Yuan, Feng wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> We have an image processing project libxcam
> >>> (https://github.com/intel/libxcam/wiki) which has been based on
> >>> OpenCL to support amount of features. Recently, we decide to porting
> >>> kernels to GLES compute-shader language and based on Vulkan APIs.
> >>> Certainly the driver is Mesa.
> >>>
> >>> There are my questions.
> >>>
> >>> 1.Which vulkan API versions are supported in Mesa. and which Mesa
> >>> version or commit_id is stable.
> >>
> >> Let's see if I get this correctly :)
> >>
> >> Vulkan 1.0.57 by Mesa 18.0 and Vulkan 1.1 is supported by the development
> branch.
> >
> > Thanks for your quick reply.
> > Which is development branch, the master or 18.0 branch?
> 
> master
> 
> >>
> >>> 2.How mature is Mesa support of GLES compute shaders? We’ll use
> >>> storage buffer, share local memory and image samplers. Is there any
> >>> known issues we need take care?
> >>
> >> These should work as specified, if you encounter issues please file
> >> bugs and if possible attach a test to the bug that will trigger the issue.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >>
> >>> 3.Besides Linux, how about Android status? We need libxcam run on
> >>> both platforms.
> >>
> >> It *should* work, vulkan is not currently actively tested on Android
> >> since it is disabled by default in Android IA build. There are also
> >> some known issues with some dEQP tests not passing but I've been
> >> running it now and then and many apps such as 3DMark, vulkan samples
> >> from Imagination and vulkan examples by SaschaWillems have been working fine.
> >
> > Sounds good. BTW I'm fresh for Vulkan. Could you point me where to get
> > vulkan samples with source code. The API spec is good but boring. I'd like to learn
> some good samples before coding.
> 
> Well there are lots of tutorials out there .. and they all have their own issues and
> problems so I'd like to avoid pointing to anything.
> 
> I've done some experiments on Android and using this project as a base:
> 
> https://github.com/googlesamples/android-vulkan-tutorials

Thank you.:)

> 
> // Tapani