Mesa 23.3 Lands Initial Intel Vulkan Driver Sparse Support - Needed For Many Newer Games

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 23.3 Lands Initial Intel Vulkan Driver Sparse Support - Needed For Many Newer Games

Intel engineers have merged to Mesa 23.3 the initial open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver support for sparse resources! This is the important feature needed for running a number of newer Direct3D 12 games with Steam Play (Proton) via VKD3D-Proton with Intel graphics hardware...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Sparse-Lands-Mesa

[Quackdoc]

No dkms for xe hurts, I would very much like to see one when possible, also with xe, no huc really hurts, many people using DG2 wont want to use xe, so still waiting for i915

[RejectModernity]

so still waiting for i915

Waiting for what? There won't be sparse support for i915

[darkbasic]

Waiting for what? There won't be sparse support for i915

Exactly, there won't be feature parity with i915 either

[Barley9432]

Exactly, there won't be feature parity with i915 either

The focus should be the future not the past. Yes it sucks there isn't some niche features like HUC supported on current Arc hardware on Xe, but the important features like sparse will be, and future hardware will be fully supported on Xe.

[Quackdoc]

Waiting for what? There won't be sparse support for i915

where was that said? I know they stopped working on vm_bind in i915 to prioritize xe, but this was before intel devs knew how important it was. it's still a lot of work, but it's not like the devs just out right abandoned i915

The focus should be the future not the past. Yes it sucks there isn't some niche features like HUC supported on current Arc hardware on Xe, but the important features like sparse will be, and future hardware will be fully supported on Xe.

there is absolutely nothing niche about huc...

[RejectModernity]

not like the devs just out right abandoned i915

Exactly that, don't expect any major improvements, just bugfixes.

[Quackdoc]

Exactly that, don't expect any major improvements, just bugfixes.

considering they have stated multiple times that i915 is intended to be the official driver for the current gen and possibly next generation cards, I doubt its going into bugfix only mode

[darkbasic]

Exactly that, don't expect any major improvements, just bugfixes.

I would be okay with that if they didn't decide that current gen arc won't support media acceleration on Xe

[darkbasic]

Yes it sucks there isn't some niche features like HUC supported on current Arc hardware on Xe

Niche? HUC is the main reason why most people buy Arc nowadays. There aren't probably any other valid reasons to buy it except for its media engine yet they decided to NOT support it in Xe.