Nouveau - Jul 2016 - [Bug 96957] New: [NVE0] Feature request: Support Vulkan on Kepler cards.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96957

            Bug ID: 96957
           Summary: [NVE0] Feature request: Support Vulkan on Kepler
                    cards.
           Product: Mesa
           Version: git
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Drivers/DRI/nouveau
          Assignee: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: ovariegata at yahoo.com
        QA Contact: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org

Hi,

If at all possible can vulkan be supported on kepler cards? It would have
immediate benefits for use with RetroArch and the mupen64plus (parallel)
libretro core which recently added vulkan support for their new plugin based on
the old cpu based angrylion plugin from the original mupen64plus project. 

Angrylion is not very usable without a powerful cpu despite being the most
accurate plugin for nintendo64 emulation, but now with the new parellel plugin
this changing quickly. However anyone using nouveau drivers can not take
advantage of this new feature unlike those with intel, amd or nvidia drivers.

Nvidia supports Vulkan on both kepler and maxwell cards, but given the state of
maxwell and nouveau it would be great if at least kepler could be supported.

Here are some relevant links concerning RetroArch.

http://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-3-5-released/
http://www.libretro.com/index.php/first-ever-revolutionary-n64-vulkan-emulator-coming-soon-only-for-libretro-parallei/
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch
https://github.com/libretro/mupen64plus-libretro

Thanks!

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--- Comment #1 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
This is not the proper forum for feature requests like this.

The people behind nouveau are certainly aware of Vulkan, in a perfect world,
would develop drivers for it. However, it's a lot of work. It took Intel
developers many months working full-time and with several people to support it.
Nouveau just doesn't have this sort of manpower.

If you're interested in leading such an effort, join us at #nouveau on
irc.freenode.net.

If you're interested in open-source support (GL or otherwise), buy an AMD
gpu
next time - giving your money to NVIDIA isn't helping anyone [involved in
OSS].

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Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from ovariegata at yahoo.com ---
Thanks for the reply, I have already talked to you about this in #nouveau and
made this request again here so that it would be more visible given recent
developments with RetroArch. I do realize it would be a lot of work and even
though I would like to help with this I'm just not nearly at that level of
programming yet.

Also, not really relevant, but I have not given any money to nvidia in years
and don't plan to again. My card is second hand. :)

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