Bill Hollings has announced the release of the MoltenVK Vulkan SDK 1.3.231 Beta with support for Vulkan 1.2.
Release for Vulkan SDK 1.3.231 BETA
- Add support for Vulkan 1.2.
- Add support for extensions:
- VK_KHR_shader_float_controls
- VK_KHR_spirv_1_4
- Vulkan semaphore functional improvements:
- Replace use of MTLFence with an option to limit to a single Vulkan queue and use Metal's implicit submisison order guarantees.
- Support option to force use of MTLEvents for Vulkan semaphores on NVIDIA and Rosetta2.
- MVKConfiguration replace booleans semaphoreUseMTLEvent and semaphoreUseMTLFence with enumerated semaphoreSupportStyle.
- Support config option to automatically use Metal argument buffers when VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing
extension is enabled. MVKConfiguration::useMetalArgumentBuffers (MVK_CONFIG_USE_METAL_ARGUMENT_BUFFERS)
is now an enum field. The use of Metal argument buffers is still disabled by default (MVK_CONFIG_USE_METAL_ARGUMENT_BUFFERS_NEVER).- MVKPipeline: Add builtins that are read but not written to tessellation pipelines.
- Fix occassional crash from retention of MVKSwapchain for future drawable presentations.
- Fix crash in vkCreateSwapchainKHR() on macOS 10.14 and earlier
- Fix undefined reference to vkGetBufferDeviceAddressEXT when building with MVK_HIDE_VULKAN_SYMBOLS=1.
- Update Makefile to forward any build setting declared on the command line to Xcode.
- Add non-functional Vulkan 1.3 core function stubs, to avoid link errors with some external
libraries that assume Vulkan 1.3 linkages from the standard Vulkan header files included with MoltenVK.- Add MVK_USE_CEREAL build setting to avoid use of Cereal external library (for pipeline caching).
- MoltenVKShaderConverter tool automatically maps bindings when converting GLSL.
- Update VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION to version 36.
- Update to latest SPIRV-Cross:
- MSL: Support OpPtrEqual, OpPtrNotEqual, and OpPtrDiff.
- MSL: Emit correct address space when casting during OpStore.
- MSL: Add a mechanism to fix up shader outputs.
- MSL: Handle descriptor aliasing of raw buffer descriptors.
- MSL: Do not attempt to alias push constants.
- MSL: only fix up gl_FragCoord if really necessary.
- MSL: Expose way to query if a buffer needs array length.
- MSL: Report unsupported 64-bit atomics.
- Don't rename remapped variables like gl_LastFragDepthARM
Release for Vulkan SDK 1.3.231 - BETA