On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Olivier Galibert <galib...@pobox.com>
wrote:

>   Hi,
>
> I'm getting gpu hangs with the lunarg examples (cube and tri) on my
> Haswell (64 bits).  I attach /sys/class/drm/card0/error fwiw.  How
> should I go about debugging that?
>

It's a depth-stencil issue and we know about it.   The gen7 code needs some
love.   I think Kristian and Jordan have been working on it.
--Jason


>
>   OG.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net>
> wrote:
> > The Intel mesa team is pleased to announce a brand-new open-source Vulkan
> > driver for Intel hardware.  We've been working hard on this over the
> course
> > of the past year or so and are excited to finally share it with the
> > community.  We will work on up-streaming the driver in the next few weeks
> > and hope to have it all in place in time for mesa 11.3 (mesa 12?).  In
> the
> > mean time, the driver can be found in the "vulkan" branch of the mesa git
> > repo on freedesktop.org:
> >
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/?h=vulkan
> >
> > More information on building the driver and running a few simple apps can
> > be found on the 01.org web site:
> >
> >
> https://01.org/linuxgraphics/blogs/jekstrand/2016/open-source-vulkan-drivers-intel-hardware
> >
> > We have talked to people at Red Hat and Cannonical and binaries should be
> > available for Fedora and Ubuntu soon.  We will update the page on 01.org
> > with links as soon as they are available.
> >
> > We have also created a small test suite called crucible which contains a
> > few hundred tests (mostly for miptrees) that we created when bringing up
> > the driver.  This isn't really intended to be the piglit of vulkan.  With
> > the CTS being publicly available, most cross-platform tests should go
> > there.  We mostly made crucible so that we could write a few tests early
> on
> > to get us going and for tests that were targetted specifically at our
> > implementation.  None the less, they may prove useful to someone and we
> are
> > happy to share them.  The crucible source code can be found at
> >
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/crucible/
> >
> > Frequently Asked Questions:
> >
> > What all hardware does it support?
> >
> >    The driver currently supports Sky Lake all the way back to Ivy Bridge.
> >    The driver is Vulkan 1.0 conformant for 64-bit builds on Sky Lake,
> >    Broadwell, and Braswell.  We are still having a couple of 32-bit
> issues
> >    and support for Haswell, Ivy Bridge, and Bay Trail should be
> considered
> >    experimental.
> >
> > How much code is shared between the Vulkan and GL drivers?
> >
> >    For shaders, we're using a SPIR-V to NIR pass which is new, and a few
> >    new NIR lowering passes for things that we previously depended on GLSL
> >    IR to handle.  Beyond that, we're using the same core NIR and the same
> >    back-end compiler that we have for GL.  We're carrying a few patches
> >    against the back-end compiler, but the delta is very small and it's
> all
> >    stuff that we eventually want to do for GL anyway.
> >
> >    The main API handling and state setup code is all new and written from
> >    the ground-up for Vulkan.  For actually packing hardware packets, we
> are
> >    using a codegen system that Kristian developed early on in the project
> >    that's based on an XML description of the hardware packets.  The
> result
> >    is state setup code that's both easier to work with and maybe even a
> >    little more efficient than what we have in mesa today.
> >
> >    We also have a brand-new surface layout library called ISL that
> handles
> >    all of the surface layout calculations.  ISL should have most of the
> >    code required to do surface layout all the way back to gen4.  Once we
> >    get aux surface support in ISL (required for HiZ, MSAA compression,
> and
> >    CCMS/fast clears), we hope to start using it in the GL driver as well.
> >
> > How much code could be shared with other Vulkan drivers?
> >
> >    Not as much as you would think.  The SPIR-V to NIR translator and the
> >    rest of the NIR compiler stack could obviously be re-used by anyone
> >    willing to tie NIR into their back-end.  The rest of the driver is,
> and
> >    will probably stay, Intel-specific.  Vulkan is a very low-level API,
> >    possibly even lower-level than gallium.  A lot of the things that we
> >    share between drivers in mesa today: the front-end compiler, state
> >    tracking, error-handling, etc. is pushed off to either the application
> >    or third-party layers in the Vulkan world.  That said, anyone wishing
> to
> >    write their own Vulkan driver, is more than welcome to use ours as a
> >    reference and steal whatever they'd like from it.
> >
> > What are your up-streaming plans?
> >
> >    Before we can land the SPIR-V to NIR layer, there are a number of core
> >    NIR changes that need to land first.  All of that code needs to be
> >    reviewed as it interacts with the GL driver and we don't want any
> >    regressions.  We are also still carrying a few patches against the
> i965
> >    back-end compiler that need a little more testing and proper review.
> It
> >    will take some time to get all of that up-stream.
> >
> >    Once that is completed and all of the NIR and i965 back-end bits are
> in
> >    place, SPIR-V, ISL, and the Vulkan driver itself can probably be
> merged
> >    without further review since they are fairly self-contained and are
> new
> >    functionality.  We should easily be able to get the driver up-stream
> in
> >    time for the 11.3 (or 12.0) release.
> >
> > What window-systems are supported?
> >
> >    The driver already has window system integration (WSI) support for X11
> >    with DRI3 and Wayland.  The Vulkan WSI extensions don't mesh well with
> >    DRI2 so supporting that isn't really an option.  If you want to Vulkan
> >    applications under X, you'll need to enable DRI3.
> >
> > Will it run X Vulkan application/demo?
> >
> >    Hopefully.  Our driver does pass the conformance suite which means the
> >    chances are pretty good that any given app will at least work.
> However,
> >    no test suite is perfect and our driver and the Vulkan ecosystem are
> >    still young, so there may be bugs.  If you do run into problems with
> an
> >    application, please file a bug against mesa at bugs.freedesktop.org
> and
> >    we will get to it as quickly as we can.
> >
> > Where did Kristian, Jason and Chad go?
> >
> >    Well, now you know. :-)
> >
> > We hope you have as much fun hacking on and playing with this driver as
> we
> > did writing it.  As always, questions, comments, and bug reports are more
> > than welcome.  Happy hacking!
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Jason Ekstrand,
> > Kristian Høgsberg Kristensen,
> > Chad Versace,
> > and the rest of the Intel mesa team
> >
> >
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