This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD

rjsw

There are already Vulkan components in pkgsrc and wip.

wbolt

This is a nice project but looks like is either AI written or AI assisted and I haven’t seen mention of that in any of the docs.

qiu3344

> Vulkan is now available looks inside: > What this is NOT (yet): Running Vulkan programs

Tiberium

Lavapipe is CPU rendering, it doesn't really prove much. But also, Vulkan on BSDs is totally possible and isn't something esoteric, FreeBSD has it. > Build goal only: This targets compilation and linkage of the Vulkan stack. Runtime GPU acceleration is not available under VirtualBox; the software driver (Lavapipe) is the target. I don't understand why this would ever be a problem, even without LLM assistance it's something that sounds like a weekend project?

MBCook

I expected this to be official from the title but it doesn’t seem to be.

klibertp

Installation instructions: ftp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/segaboy/vulkan-netbsd/main/scripts/setup-env.sh !^^^^^! That's... a bit unorthodox. FreeBSD has a `fetch`[1] utility for this, I wasn't aware NetBSD puts that in `ftp`[2]. Interesting choice. I wonder what led to it. [1] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fetch [2] https://man.netbsd.org/ftp.1

iamnothere

I have never had a need for NetBSD, but in case I ever do, I’m glad it’s there. Especially with Linux deprecating old platforms. This looks like an unofficial effort but hopefully it gets refined and integrated.

spiral09

Lavapipe? So it's just Mesa software rendering stuff