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Open-Source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver Lands Ray Query Support
The 'TURNIP' open-source Vulkan API driver within Mesa for supporting Qualcomm Adreno graphics is now able to expose accelerated ray query support for ray-tracing with newer Adreno GPUs.
Longtime Mesa contributor Connor Abbott authored the patches last year for the Turnip driver to expose VK_KHR_ray_query. This accelerated ray query support is enabled for the Adreno 740 graphics and newer. It took a lot of revisions and 25 patches in total, but now the important VK_KHR_ray_query extension is supported by this open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for newer Adreno graphics.
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