RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension
The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index that was introduced last week.
VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index allows for setting a custom primitive restart index and designed to help support OpenGL emulation atop the Vulkan API. VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index was developed by Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team. Blumenkrantz notably is one of the lead developers of Mesa's Zink driver for generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan. The primitive restart index extension was merged as part of Vulkan 1.4.348 at the start of the month.
RADV is now the first Mesa Vulkan driver supporting VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index for helping with future Zink usage.
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team took care of the implementation. It landed for Mesa 26.1 via this merge.
Separately and still under review are also primitive restart index implementations for Lavapipe and the Intel ANV driver.
VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index allows for setting a custom primitive restart index and designed to help support OpenGL emulation atop the Vulkan API. VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index was developed by Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team. Blumenkrantz notably is one of the lead developers of Mesa's Zink driver for generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan. The primitive restart index extension was merged as part of Vulkan 1.4.348 at the start of the month.
RADV is now the first Mesa Vulkan driver supporting VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index for helping with future Zink usage.
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team took care of the implementation. It landed for Mesa 26.1 via this merge.
Separately and still under review are also primitive restart index implementations for Lavapipe and the Intel ANV driver.