The intention behind a Vulkan wrapper is to drop Vulkan-Hpp.
The issues with Vulkan-Hpp are:
- Regular breaks of the API.
- Copy constructors that do the same as the aggregates (fixed recently)
- External dynamic dispatch that is hard to remove
- Alias KHR handles with non-KHR handles making it impossible to use
smart handles on Vulkan 1.0 instances with extensions that were included
on Vulkan 1.1.
- Dynamic dispatchers silently change size depending on preprocessor
definitions. Different files will have different dispatch definitions,
generating all kinds of hard to debug memory issues.
In other words, Vulkan-Hpp is not "production ready" for our needs and
this wrapper aims to replace it without losing RAII and exception
safety.
This information is required to properly implement SULD.B. It might also
be handy for all image operations, since it would allow us to implement
them on devices that require the image format to be specified (on
desktop, this would be AMD on OpenGL and Intel on OpenGL and Vulkan).
Rounding operations only matter when the conversion size of source and
destination is the same, i.e. .F16.F16, .F32.F32 and .F64.F64.
When there is a mismatch (.F16.F32), these bits are used for IEEE
rounding, we don't emulate this because GLSL and SPIR-V don't support
configuring it per operation.
Changes the GraphicsContext to be managed by the GPU core. This
eliminates the need for the frontends to fool around with tricky
MakeCurrent/DoneCurrent calls that are dependent on the settings (such
as async gpu option).
This also refactors out the need to use QWidget::fromWindowContainer as
that caused issues with focus and input handling. Now we use a regular
QWidget and just access the native windowHandle() directly.
Another change is removing the debug tool setting in FrameMailbox.
Instead of trying to block the frontend until a new frame is ready, the
core will now take over presentation and draw directly to the window if
the renderer detects that its hooked by NSight or RenderDoc
Lastly, since it was in the way, I removed ScopeAcquireWindowContext and
replaced it with a simple subclass in GraphicsContext that achieves the
same result
Implement depth ranges using the transformed viewport instead of the
generic one. This matches the current Vulkan implementation but doesn't
support negative depth ranges. An update to glad is required for this.
