Vulkan Debug Report Extension For Intel's ANV Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 24 August 2017 at 06:23 AM EDT. 1 Comment
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Intel's open-source developer crew is now working on VK_EXT_debug_report as the latest Vulkan extension for their "ANV" Linux driver.

VK_EXT_debug_report is the debug report extension that allows for Vulkan layers and the drivers to provide a callback to the application/game of useful events for debugging problems / performance issues.

The Vulkan VK_EXT_debug_report extension is laid out via the Vulkan documentation.

Tapani Pälli of Intel today sent out the initia VK_EXT_debug_report code for the Mesa ANV driver. That work for now can be found on Mesa-dev.
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