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[OpenGL and Vulkan Interoperability on Linux] Part 6: About overwriting buffers [UPDATED]

This blog post (originally published on: Oct 18, 2020) has been updated in 2022 because some information was inaccurate.

I had misinterpreted a part of the spec about memory mapping and thought that we can’t really overwrite Vulkan allocated buffers. That had to do with the Intel cards memory organization where the GPU memory is RAM and we usually map it the same way we map user allocated memory. I am pretty sure that buffers should be overwritten now, and so I am planning to extend these series with buffer overwriting examples in the future.

Afaik, Tapani Pälli is working on supporting this feature on Intel and AMD might have some support already (I plan to check) so I believe that it will be soon available in most mesa drivers that support the interoperability extensions.

More blog posts about it coming (hopefully) soon!

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[OpenGL and Vulkan Interoperability on Linux] Part 5: A Vulkan pixel buffer is reused from OpenGL

This is the 5th post of the OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability series where I describe some use cases for the EXT_external_objects and EXT_external_objects_fd extensions. These use cases have been implemented inside Piglit as part of my work for Igalia‘s graphics team using a Vulkan framework I’ve written for this purpose.

And in this 5th post, we are going to see a case where a pixel buffer is allocated and filled by Vulkan and its data are used as source data for an OpenGL texture image.

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[OpenGL and Vulkan Interoperability on Linux] Part 4: Using OpenGL to overwrite Vulkan allocated textures.

This is the 4th post on OpenGL and Vulkan Interoperability on Linux. The first one was an introduction to EXT_external_objects and EXT_external_objects_fd extensions, the second was describing a simple interoperability use case where a Vulkan allocated textured is filled by OpenGL, and the third was about a slightly more complex use case where a Vulkan texture was filled by Vulkan and displayed by OpenGL. In this 4th and last post about shared textures, we are going to see a use case where a Vulkan texture is filled by Vulkan, then gets overwritten by OpenGL, then is read back from Vulkan and then displayed again using OpenGL. This more complex use case has also been written for Piglit using the small Vulkan framework I’ve written to test the external objects extensions. The source code can be found inside the tests/spec/ext_external_objects directory of the mesa/piglit master branch.

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[OpenGL and Vulkan Interoperability on Linux] Part 3: Using OpenGL to display Vulkan allocated textures.

This is the third post of the OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability series, where I explain some EXT_external_objects and EXT_external_objects_fd use cases with examples taken by the Piglit tests I’ve written to test the extensions as part of my work for Igalia‘s graphics team.

We are going to see a slightly more complex case of Vulkan/GL interoperability where an image is allocated and filled using Vulkan and then it is displayed using OpenGL. This case is implemented in Piglit’s vk-image-display test for a 2D RGBA texture (which is one of the most commonly used texture types).

Remember that the code for the test and the Vulkan helper/framework functions as well as the interoperability functions is in tests/spec/ext_external_objects/ Piglit directory.

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[OpenGL and Vulkan Interoperability on Linux] Part 2: Using OpenGL to draw on Vulkan textures.

This is the second post of the OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability series, where I explain some EXT_external_objects and EXT_external_objects_fd use cases with examples taken by the Piglit tests I’ve written to test the extensions as part of my work for Igalia‘s graphics team.

We are going to see a very simple case of Vulkan/GL interoperability where an image is allocated using Vulkan and filled using OpenGL. This case is implemented in Piglit’s vk-image-overwrite test for images of different formats.

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[OpenGL and Vulkan Interoperability on Linux] Part 1: Introduction

It’s been a while that Igalia’s graphics team had been working on the OpenGL extensions that provide the mechanisms for OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability in the Intel iris (gallium3d) driver that is part of mesa.

As there were no conformance tests (CTS) for this extension, and we needed to test it, we have written (and we are still writing) small tests for piglit that allow the exchange and the synchronization of the exchange of resources such as buffers, textures, and depth or stencil buffers.

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Vkrunner allows specifying the required Vulkan version

The required Vulkan implementation version for a Vkrunner shader test can now be specified in its [require] section. Tests that are targeting Vulkan versions that aren’t supported by the device driver will be skipped.

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i965: Improved support for the ETC/EAC formats on Intel Gen 7 and previous GPUs

This post is about a recent contribution I’ve done to the i965 mesa driver to improve the emulation of the ETC/EAC texture formats on the Intel Gen 7 and older GPUs, as part of my work for the Igalia‘s graphics team.

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The video mostly shows the behavior of some GL calls and operations with and without the patches that improve the emulation of the ETC/EAC formats on Gen7 GPUs. The same programs run first with the previous ETC/EAC emulation (upper terminal) and then with the new one (lower terminal).

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A short OpenGL / SPIRV example.

It’s been a while since Igalia is working on bringing SPIR-V to mesa OpenGL. Alejandro Piñeiro has already given a talk on the status of the ARB_gl_spirv extension development that was very well received at FOSDEM 2018 . Anyone interested in technical information can watch the video recording here: https://youtu.be/wXr8-C51qeU.

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