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On 08/11/2016 11:32 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: |
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> Ühel kenal päeval, N, 11.08.2016 kell 11:23, kirjutas james: |
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>> Whilst devs are discussing the future of Valve's offerings on |
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>> gentoo, |
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>> it'd be wise to consider the effects of "Vulcan" as it is FOSS where |
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>> all |
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>> video card vendors can inter-operate with multiple game vendors. |
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>> Vulcan |
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>> will impact those gaming codes, as Vulcan seems to be the clear |
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>> pathway |
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>> forward for Valve related to Open Source communities [1 3]. |
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> I have no idea what Vulcan is, besides the race in Star Trek or Roman |
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> god, but Vulkan is tracked in https://bugs.gentoo.org/574886 and Intel |
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> support in https://bugs.gentoo.org/580148 |
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> I was going to look into it as well on basis of Intel Vulkan with |
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> dota2, but on that machine Steam doesn't even work anymore due to |
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> https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4537 |
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> so got rather demotivated. Basically a case where having a fully |
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> working setup without steam runtime should also fix it. Current main |
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> machine has Radeon Evergreen and so no current Vulkan implementation to |
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> play with. |
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> Mart |
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All of this is a moving target, for sure. This is dated but here |
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is some more info. Surely there will be consolidation and back-porting |
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of codes to make the linux vulcan drivers more useful to the FOSS |
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communities, I hope. I'm just not sure when this will happen and I would |
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not be able to offer guidance, hence, I have filed no bugs on Vulcan. |
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I'm not really up on the latest of what's working either. |
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My main issue it to use the GPU resources of all video cards, with |
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compilers and on clusters, at some point, in the future |
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Vulkan |
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hth, |
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James |