Re: Queries regarding the Khronos specification license

2024-02-06 Thread Faith Ekstrand
What do you mean "re-implementing parts of the Vulkan APIs"? I have a feeling someone is confused about licensing Also, I'm NOT a lawyer. What follows does not constitute legal advice and anyone who's actually concerned about the legal implications should consult an actual lawyer who is

Re: Future direction of the Mesa Vulkan runtime (or "should we build a new gallium?")

2024-01-25 Thread Faith Ekstrand
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 5:06 PM Gert Wollny wrote: > Hi, > > thanks, Faith, for bringing this discussion up. > > I think with Venus we are more interested in using utility libraries on > an as-needed basis. Here, most of the time the Vulkan commands are just > serialized according to the Venus

Re: Future direction of the Mesa Vulkan runtime (or "should we build a new gallium?")

2024-01-25 Thread Faith Ekstrand
_ extensions that could be used by the > shared Vulkan code to do lower level things. > We already do that for a handful of things. The fact that Vulkan doesn't ever check the stuff in the pNext chain is really useful for that.  ~Faith > Jose > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 3

Re: Future direction of the Mesa Vulkan runtime (or "should we build a new gallium?")

2024-01-24 Thread Faith Ekstrand
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:26 PM Zack Rusin wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:27 AM Faith Ekstrand wrote: > > > > Jose, > > > > Thanks for your thoughts! > > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 4:30 AM Jose Fonseca wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Future direction of the Mesa Vulkan runtime (or "should we build a new gallium?")

2024-01-24 Thread Faith Ekstrand
nt as they > can bend and adapt with the times, whereas no opt-out watertight abstractions > inherently have a shelf life. > > Jose > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM Faith Ekstrand wrote: >> >> Yeah, this one's gonna hit Phoronix... >> >> When we started writi

Re: Future direction of the Mesa Vulkan runtime (or "should we build a new gallium?")

2024-01-22 Thread Faith Ekstrand
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 7:20 AM Iago Toral wrote: > > Hi Faith, > > thanks for starting the discussion, we had a bit of an internal chat > here at Igalia to see where we all stand on this and I am sharing some > initial thoughts/questions below: > > El vie, 19-01-2024

Future direction of the Mesa Vulkan runtime (or "should we build a new gallium?")

2024-01-19 Thread Faith Ekstrand
Yeah, this one's gonna hit Phoronix... When we started writing Vulkan drivers back in the day, there was this notion that Vulkan was a low-level API that directly targets hardware. Vulkan drivers were these super thin things that just blasted packets straight into the hardware. What little code

Re: How to get developer access to mesa gitlab repo ?

2023-09-13 Thread Faith Ekstrand
This was fine. It's mostly that those requests often get lost in the flood if email traffic coming out of GitLab. Sending an email or pinging on IRC works. You've got access now. ~Faith On September 13, 2023 22:05:12 Feng Jiang wrote: Dear All! I didn't find some tips or instructions in