Vulkan Runtime

The Vulkan runtime and utility code in Mesa provides a powerful shared core for building Vulkan drivers. It’s a collection of base structures (think base classes in OOO) which allow us to implement a bunch of the annoying hardware-agnostic bits in common code.

• Base object structs
  • vk_object_base
  • vk_instance
  • vk_physical_device
  • vk_device
• Dispatch
  • Extension tables
  • Entrypoint and dispatch tables
  • Generating driver dispatch tables
  • Common Vulkan entrypoints
  • Entrypoint lookup
  • Populating layer or client dispatch tables
• Command Pools
  • Command Buffer Recycling
  • Custom command pools
  • Reference
• Graphics state
  • Pipeline state
  • Dynamic state
  • Depth stencil state optimization
  • Reference
• Render Passes
  • VK_KHR_create_renderpass2
  • Common VkRenderPass implementation
  • VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering
  • vk_render_pass reference