Progress Being Made On OpenCL+OpenGL Over Direct3D 12

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Progress Being Made On OpenCL+OpenGL Over Direct3D 12

There is an update on the porting effort led by Collabora and Microsoft for layering OpenCL and OpenGL on top of Direct3D 12...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenCL-OpenGL-DX12-Progress

[tildearrow]

Are you kidding me?

Now that is what I call... a waste of time.
Microsoft is just desperate to revive DirectX 12.

[TemplarGR]

Are you kidding me?

Now that is what I call... a waste of time.
Microsoft is just desperate to revive DirectX 12.

No, really no. D3D12 needs no revival. It will dominate the AAA industry next gen.

[aufkrawall]

I wonder if OpenCL -> D3D12 -> VK might work? Sure, there is one redundant step, but if no one works on direct CL -> VK?

[Michael]

I wonder if OpenCL -> D3D12 -> VK might work? Sure, there is one redundant step, but if no one works on direct CL -> VK?

There is already CLVK

[aufkrawall]

There is already CLVK

Whoops, somehow this slipped through for me. Good to see this project also having recent Github activity.

[schmidtbag]

Is there some reason they can't just use the Windows OGL+OCL drivers? I feel I must be misunderstanding something here because it seems a little too unnecessary.

[tildearrow]

Is there some reason they can't just use the Windows OGL+OCL drivers? I feel I must be misunderstanding something here because it seems a little too unnecessary.

Just not willing to, I guess.


Now I just hope they don't go the Apple way and deprecate/remove OpenGL...

[R41N3R]

They should have used Vulkan instead of D3D12 as this wouldn't require then for WSL2 a D3D12 Linux kernel driver! Hope these developments improve Zink at least as well!

[kpedersen]

No, really no. D3D12 needs no revival. It will dominate the AAA industry next gen.

Really? I thought those days of writing non-portable win-games were behind us?