Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers (www.phoronix.com)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yup, derived from a point in time where Vulkan was seen as a direct successor to OpenGL.

I suppose credit where due, AMD did kind of put an end to mantle, and give that over to the Khronos group to later become Vulkan. XGL as the UMD reference may predate the name Vulkan altogether.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, at one point vulkan was called glNext so I guess it isn't that wild. Although I'm surprised they would have started development on a driver before any spec was fully agreed on. Unless they just reworked their mantle driver to become their vulkan driver?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't be surprised if something like that was the case. Could have been that the successive work was negotiated with khronos & lunarg before the final name was chosen.

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