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Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features
HoneyKrisp as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon graphics and developed as part of the Asahi Linux project has landed a number of enhancements into the mainline Mesa code.
HoneyKrisp is set to debut in Mesa 24.3 but remains in active development and also depends on the still yet-to-be-upstreamed Apple DRM kernel driver support. - DRM modifiers - conformance fixes - proper devicecoherent support - perf_debug in Honeykrisp - misc performance improvements to HK - optimized robustness2 - significant RA fixes found with =spill - compressed MSAA support - DRLR - lots and lots of bug fixes - how are there so many bugs - i thought this passed conformance surely that's all the bugs - even more bug fixes The DRM modifiers, compressed multi-sampling anti-aliasing, more Vulkan API conformance work, and other improvements are all nice to see. See this Mesa merge for more details on the latest batch of open-source Apple Vulkan driver code.
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