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Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines

Mesa's Lavapipe driver as a software (CPU-based) implementation of the Vulkan API has now implemented support for ray-tracing pipelines.

Lavapipe joins the Mesa Intel ANV and Radeon RADV Vulkan drivers in supporting VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline for ray-tracing pipelines. Nearly two thousand lines of new code was part of this merge request that hit Mesa 24.1 Git on Tuesday. Konstantin Seurer who authored the Lavapipe RT pipeline support commented in that merge request:

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