----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> > To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, 20 February, 2016 12:14:00 PM > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Fedora support for Vulkan > > David Airlie wrote: > > No, nothing concrete has been mentioned in this area at all. > > > > sw rendering won't benefit from vulkan very much, in fact it would be > > worse than GL in some cases, as Vulkan really works on the building up > > long command buffers and executing them, rather than direct execution in a > > context that GL does. > > But eventually there will be Vulkan-only software and some fallback is > needed for the hardware not supported by any hardware driver. > Not necessarily. Until someone writes one, there are no plans to have one. We have GL, I doubt we'll be writing compositors in Vulkan anytime soon, fallbacks would probably be to use GL. Dave. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
