Have there been any news about Vulkan Drivers for the Pi4 since February?

[Yarmongrel]

Question pretty much says it all. Eben Upton announced on Jan 31 that it was being worked on and showed a screenshot with the milestone of the first triangle they managed to render with Vulkan on the Pi4. From what I can see, little else has been stated since then.

Does anyone know the current status of the project?

[BuZz]

@Yarmongrel Eben Upton wrote as a comment on the Raspberry Pi blog for the release of the 8gb model and OS updates:

More Vulkan news coming real soon now.

There's a couple of commits that reference RPI Vulkan support recently added to MESA (when I last checked). But we have to wait I guess.

[Retro]

Forgive my ignorance, but what is Vulkan?

[mitu]

@Retro said in Have there been any news about Vulkan Drivers for the Pi4 since February?:

Forgive my ignorance, but what is Vulkan?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)

[Retro]

@mitu Cheers.

[rubencg]

Pi4's Vulkan driver has been merged into the Mesa repo. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/vulkan-update-merged-to-mesa/

[akamming]

@rubencg said in Have there been any news about Vulkan Drivers for the Pi4 since February?:

Pi4's Vulkan driver has been merged into the Mesa repo. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/vulkan-update-merged-to-mesa/

hmmm... wouldn't get your hopes up too high.

I compiled and installed using these instructions

then i tried some things

1. a self compiled version of ppsspp with vulkan support. conclusion: vulkan works, but framerate on vulkan lower than with opengl backend
2. a self compiled version ofr retroarch with lr-mupen64plus-next with vulcan support. On the normal open gl renderer it works, but gives a segmentation fault on the angrylion vulkan rendererer
3. a self compiled version of retroarch with lr-parallel: same segmentation fault on the same renderer

so apparently a lot of work to be done before we get benefits using vulkan....