Category: OpenGL and Vulkan Interoperability on Linux

EXT_external_objects and EXT_external_objects_fd are groups of OpenGL extensions that allow OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability. When enabled, Vulkan allocated resources can be accessed and re-used by OpenGL. These posts are about the implementation of the extensions in various drivers, and some common interoperability use cases and examples that have been added to piglit, an OpenGL drivers testing framework.

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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]: The XDC 2020 presentation

In this year’s XDC I’ve given a talk about OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability and our work to support EXT_external_objects and EXT_external_objects_fd on different Mesa3D drivers.

These are my slides and pages 9-12 contain short descriptions of all the Piglit EXT_external_objects use cases I plan to describe in the upcoming OpenGL and Vulkan Interoperability blog posts:

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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.

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

[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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