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This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD

121 points by segaboy81

by Tiberium

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Lavapipe is CPU rendering, it doesn't really prove much. But also, Vulkan on BSDs is totally possible and isn't something esoteric, FreeBSD has it.
> Build goal only: This targets compilation and linkage of the Vulkan stack. Runtime GPU acceleration is not available under VirtualBox; the software driver (Lavapipe) is the target.
I don't understand why this would ever be a problem, even without LLM assistance it's something that sounds like a weekend project?

by qiu3344

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> Vulkan is now available
looks inside:
> What this is NOT (yet): Running Vulkan programs

by klibertp

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by wbolt

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This is a nice project but looks like is either AI written or AI assisted and I haven’t seen mention of that in any of the docs.

by anthk

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by MBCook

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by rjsw

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by iamnothere

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I have never had a need for NetBSD, but in case I ever do, I’m glad it’s there. Especially with Linux deprecating old platforms.
This looks like an unofficial effort but hopefully it gets refined and integrated.

by spiral09

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by sylware

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The vulkan stack is rather lean (there are still c++ though, valve removed a lot of c++ for less c++, it would have been correct with plain and simple C).
The big chunk is DRM kernel code.
AMD seems to be working on _userland_ hardware command ring buffers, which should makes userland vulkan even simpler. Dunno how they will work around the VMID stuff though.

by rvz

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