Graphics: Mesa 20.2, AMDVLK 2020.Q2.5, Mike Blumenkrantz's Work and Microsoft's EEE
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Mesa 20.2 Gets A Release Schedule With Hopes Of Shipping By End Of August
It should hardly come as a surprise if you regularly follow the Mesa quarterly release cadence for these open-source Vulkan/OpenGL drivers, but a release schedule has now been committed for next quarter's Mesa 20.2.
The release schedule puts the Mesa 20.2.0 release at the end of August, just as we have been expecting. Granted, with any release blocker delays it could easily mean the release doesn't ship until September with Mesa release delays being somewhat common.
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AMDVLK 2020.Q2.5 Driver Released With Some New Bits + Bug Fixes
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.5 is out today as the newest snapshot of this open-source official AMD Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems.
Now supported by AMDVLK 2020.Q2.5 is vkGetDeviceQueue2, speeding up CmdCopyImageGraphics, and the VK_COMPOSITE_ALPHA_PRE_MULTIPLIED_BIT_KHR capability within supportedCompositeAlpha.
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Mike Blumenkrantz: Anatomy Of A Shader Bugfix
I’ve talked and rambled about various things, and maybe I’ve given an idea of what it’s like to work on Zink, but the reality is that I spend a majority of my time working on the shader translation pipeline, which converts NIR to SPIRV.
Today let’s go through the process for fixing an issue in this pipeline, as detected by piglit.
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Microsoft Posts Initial DRM Driver For Hyper-V Synthetic Video Device
We'll see how this Microsoft DRM driver pans out and how quickly it will be accepted to mainline as well as how long it will take until the driver is more feature complete.
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