January 23, after more than a seven-year break, the release of 2025.01 of the utility vkmark, designed to measure Vulkan performance. The utility is written in C++ and is distributed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 license.
Change log:
- Using VK_EXT_external_memory_dmabuf in the KMS windowing system.
- Support for atomicity has been added in the KMS windowing system.
- Using explicit format modifiers in the KMS windowing system.
- Support for mailbox and immediate display modes in the KMS windowing system.
- Using xdg-shell in the Wayland windowing system.
- Added a windowing system based on VK_KHR_display (‘display’).
- Added a windowing system based on VK_EXT_headless_surface (‘headless’).
- Added command line option —list-devices to output the list of Vulkan physical devices.
- Added command line option —use-device to select a Vulkan physical device.
- Enabling the validation layer in debug mode.
- Various validation errors have been fixed.
- A C++17 compiler is now required for compilation.
- A NEWS file has been added listing changes since the previous release.
Source: linux.org.ru
