The Khronos Group Announces "Kamaros" As Their Newest Forthcoming API

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Khronos Group Announces "Kamaros" As Their Newest Forthcoming API

The Khronos Group that is known as the standards body behind OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, SPIR-V, glTF, OpenXR, and other industry APIs announced that their next API will be called Kamaros...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-Kamaros

[Neuro-Chef]

So.. will this be good or bad for libcamera?

[ddriver]

So many APIs, they will soon need a special API for all them APIs.

One API to rule them all!

[markg85]

So.. will this be good or bad for libcamera?

Time will tell.

Libcamera, although great for sure, is made by the raspberry pi folks. That on it's own is just fine but for camera vendors probably not that appealing to use. An open industry standard build by a standards body like kronos is likely to see much more adoption. At least that's how i see it.

Then again, kronos also tried to make standards for video encoding/decoding (like OpenMax) which thus far gained traction on mobile but don't really seem to be present on the desktop side (there it's still mostly VA-API and NVENC). So.... again, time will tell

[linuxgeex]

So many APIs, they will soon need a special API for all them APIs.

One API to rule them all!

That's basically what this is... an adapter/condom API so OEM developers can use a variety of APIs behind the scenes if that will save them work, and provide a standards-compliant API to application developers. That's what the OEMs want to do - make their hardware available to the widest software market with the least effort. It's what the Application Developers want - to have a single reliable API with backwards-compatibility guarantees (Khronos will take care of enforcing that contract.)

[skeevy420]

So many APIs, they will soon need a special API for all them APIs.

One API to rule them all!

One API to rule them all, one API to find them,

One API to bring th...the hell is a Kamaros?

Situation: There are two competing standards.


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An open industry standard build by a standards body like kronos is likely to see much more adoption. At least that's how i see it.

Then again, kronos also tried to make standards for video encoding/decoding (like OpenMax) which thus far gained traction on mobile but don't really seem to be present on the desktop side (there it's still mostly VA-API and NVENC). So.... again, time will tell

Yeah it is always a question: will it go the way of OpenVG or the way of Vulkan? Vulkan and OpenGL are the Kronos greatest hits, and rather than coming from a committee/consortium, they were both born from industry just trying something. OpenGL from SGI IRIS GL, and Vulkan from Mantle.

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