The Platforms Initially Supporting Vulkan
Khronos President and NVIDIA employee Neil Trevett is currently on stage talking about Vulkan and co. The details so far are pretty much the same as the previously-embargoed Khronos Debuts OpenGL ES 3.2 & New GL Extensions, But No Vulkan This Week details.
He does speak highly of Vulkan being cross-platform, with the initially supported platforms being:
- Microsoft Windows (going back from Win 10 to Win 7 though XP support would be possible by driver vendors)
- Valve's SteamOS
- Ubuntu Linux
- Red Hat Linux
- Samsung Tizen
- Google Android
It's nothing really surprising since Google's announcement on Monday of their intention to support Vulkan as their new low-level graphics API on Android.
Of course, other Linux distributions supporting Vulkan / SPIR-V is a given, but Ubuntu and Red Hat are mentioned since both companies joined The Khronos Group last year for ensuring the next-gen APIs would be Linux-friendly and supported under X11, Wayland, and Mir. Valve is also a Khronos member and currently their Debian-based SteamOS utilizes X11. Khronos memberships start out at $15k USD.
More posts should anything else of particular new interest be said during Khronos' SG'15 BoF.
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