Microsoft company on the implementation of significant in the WSL subsystem (Windows Subsystem for Linux), which provides running Linux executable files on Windows:
- support for running Linux applications with a graphical interface, eliminating the need to use X servers from other companies. Support is implemented through GPU access virtualization.
An open driver has been prepared for the Linux kernel , which exposes the /dev/dxg device with services replicating the WDDM D3DKMT of the Windows kernel. The driver establishes a connection to the physical GPU using the VM bus. Linux applications have the same level of GPU access as native Windows applications, without the use of resource sharing between Windows and Linux.
Moreover, for Linux, the libd3d12.so library is provided, which provides direct access to the Direct3D 12 graphics API and is built from the same code as the Windows d3d12.dll library. A simplified version of the dxgi API is also provided in the form of the DxCore library (libdxcore.so). The libd3d12.so and libdxcore.so libraries are proprietary and only come in binary builds (mounted in /usr/lib/wsl/lib) that are compatible with Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Centos, SUSE and other distributions based on Glibc.
OpenGL support in Mesa is provided through , which translates calls to the DirectX 12 API. The method for implementing the Vulkan API is still at the planning stage.
- Added support for computer computing on graphics cards, which allows you to use hardware acceleration for tasks such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. At the first stage, WSL environments will support CUDA and , running on top of the D3D12 API (for example, in a Linux environment, you can run TensorFlow with a DirectML backend). OpenCL support is possible through a layer that maps calls to the DX12 API.
- WSL installation will soon be supported with a simple "wsl.exe --install" command.
Source: opennet.ru