VK_KHR_portability_subset

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Last Modified Date

2020-07-21

IP Status

No known IP claims.

Contributors

• Bill Hollings, The Brenwill Workshop Ltd.
• Daniel Koch, NVIDIA
• Dzmitry Malyshau, Mozilla
• Chip Davis, CodeWeavers
• Dan Ginsburg, Valve
• Mike Weiblen, LunarG
• Neil Trevett, NVIDIA
• Alexey Knyazev, Independent

Description

The VK_KHR_portability_subset extension allows a non-conformant Vulkan implementation to be built on top of another non-Vulkan graphics API, and identifies differences between that implementation and a fully-conformant native Vulkan implementation.

This extension provides Vulkan implementations with the ability to mark otherwise-required capabilities as unsupported, or to establish additional properties and limits that the application should adhere to in order to guarantee portable behavior and operation across platforms, including platforms where Vulkan is not natively supported.

The goal of this specification is to document, and make queryable, capabilities which are required to be supported by a fully-conformant Vulkan 1.0 implementation, but may be optional for an implementation of the Vulkan 1.0 Portability Subset.

The intent is that this extension will be advertised only on implementations of the Vulkan 1.0 Portability Subset, and not on conformant implementations of Vulkan 1.0. Fully-conformant Vulkan implementations provide all the required capabilities, and so will not provide this extension. Therefore, the existence of this extension can be used to determine that an implementation is likely not fully conformant with the Vulkan spec.

If this extension is supported by the Vulkan implementation, the application must enable this extension.

This extension defines several new structures that can be chained to the existing structures used by certain standard Vulkan calls, in order to query for non-conformant portable behavior.

New Structures

• Extending VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, VkDeviceCreateInfo:
  • VkPhysicalDevicePortabilitySubsetFeaturesKHR
• Extending VkPhysicalDeviceProperties2:
  • VkPhysicalDevicePortabilitySubsetPropertiesKHR

New Enum Constants

• VK_KHR_PORTABILITY_SUBSET_EXTENSION_NAME
• VK_KHR_PORTABILITY_SUBSET_SPEC_VERSION
• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PORTABILITY_SUBSET_FEATURES_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PORTABILITY_SUBSET_PROPERTIES_KHR

Issues

None.

Version History

• Revision 1, 2020-07-21 (Bill Hollings)
  • Initial draft.