It Looks Like Canonical Will Soon Publish Vulkan Mir Support On Mesa

Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 21 May 2016 at 10:18 AM EDT. 45 Comments
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We've been waiting to see Vulkan on Mir after the developers working on this display server for Ubuntu missed their original Ubuntu 16.04 target but the latest chatter indicates we might be seeing the support materialize soon.

The Mir Vulkan support has been deferred the past few Mir releases while now the bug report about the feature enhancement for Vulkan on Mir indicates it may be coming soon (hopefully this time is the charm!). Cemil Azizoglu, the team lead for the Mir Display Server at Canonical, commented:
Initial Vulkan (Mesa) integration was done a few weeks ago but it uses some private headers. There were a few new Mir interfaces that have yet to be published. Once they are published in the dev trunk, they will then go out on an official release (0.24)? Vulkan Mesa support can then be finalized and upstreamed.

It will be interesting to see this happen considering Mesa/X.Org hasn't been accepting Mir support code and thus is carried just by the Ubuntu packages. This Mesa integration support is presumably referring just to Intel Vulkan support with the AMD and NVIDIA Vulkan driver stacks both being closed-source and separate from the Mesa tree.

More details as they become available.
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