VK_ANDROID_external_format_resolve

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2023-05-03

IP Status

No known IP claims.

Contributors

• Tobias Hector, AMD
• Chris Forbes, Google
• Jan-Harald Fredriksen, Arm
• Shahbaz Youssefi, Google
• Matthew Netsch, Qualcomm
• Tony Zlatsinki, Nvidia
• Daniel Koch, Nvidia
• Jeff Leger, Qualcomm
• Alex Walters, Imagination
• Andrew Garrard, Imagination
• Ralph Potter, Samsung
• Ian Elliott, Google

Description

This extension enables rendering to Android Hardware Buffers with external formats which cannot be directly represented as renderable in Vulkan, including Y′C_BC_R formats.

New Structures

• Extending VkAndroidHardwareBufferPropertiesANDROID:
  • VkAndroidHardwareBufferFormatResolvePropertiesANDROID
• Extending VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, VkDeviceCreateInfo:
  • VkPhysicalDeviceExternalFormatResolveFeaturesANDROID
• Extending VkPhysicalDeviceProperties2:
  • VkPhysicalDeviceExternalFormatResolvePropertiesANDROID

New Enum Constants

• VK_ANDROID_EXTERNAL_FORMAT_RESOLVE_EXTENSION_NAME
• VK_ANDROID_EXTERNAL_FORMAT_RESOLVE_SPEC_VERSION
• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_ANDROID_HARDWARE_BUFFER_FORMAT_RESOLVE_PROPERTIES_ANDROID
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_EXTERNAL_FORMAT_RESOLVE_FEATURES_ANDROID
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_EXTERNAL_FORMAT_RESOLVE_PROPERTIES_ANDROID

If VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering or Vulkan Version 1.3 is supported:

• Extending VkResolveModeFlagBits:
  • VK_RESOLVE_MODE_EXTERNAL_FORMAT_DOWNSAMPLE_ANDROID

Version History

• Revision 1, 2023-05-34 (Tobias Hector)
  • Initial version