Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

Zink GL-Over-Vulkan Now Supports Conditional Rendering - Stepping Towards OpenGL 3.0

Written by Michael Larabel in Mesa on 11 May 2020 at 07:38 AM EDT. 21 Comments

The Zink Gallium3D driver project that is layering OpenGL over Vulkan is one step closer to exposing OpenGL 3.0 capabilities.

The Zink project has just been at OpenGL 2.1 era functionality for this generic OpenGL-over-Vulkan layer. But now conditional rendering support was merged. NV_conditional_render is one of the requirements for OpenGL 3.0 and that is now scratched off the list with this merge request pulled in today for Mesa 20.2.

Zink still needs to finish up EXT_transform_feedback and depth format cube textures functionality before it can expose OpenGL 3.0 capabilities. A lot of work is left after that for the other OpenGL 3.x milestones. The Zink performance also still leaves a lot to be desired and at least for now users are better off with their dedicated OpenGL hardware drivers.

21 Comments

Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO

Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines

RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1

RADV Lands New Extension To Better Debug GPU Hangs

Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.