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).
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.
Legacy varyings are special attributes carried over in hardware from
the OpenGL 1 and OpenGL 2 days. These were generally used instead of the
generic attributes we use today. They are deprecated or removed from
most APIs, but Nvidia still ships them in hardware.
To implement these, this commit maps them 1:1 to OpenGL compatibility.
Nguyen Dac Nam