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During the initial discussion on the kernel mailing list regarding MS bringing in some DX related stuff, there was mentioned (although seemingly no one really p
by cptnapalm 6y ago
During the initial discussion on the kernel mailing list regarding MS bringing in some DX related stuff, there was mentioned (although seemingly no one really picked up on it) an internal discussion at MicroSoft of porting DX12 to Linux with no Windows required.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/19/1527 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/19/1527
- shmerl 6y agoThey never said they'll open source it though. So I'd say no, thanks. I don't really trust them doing the right thing. If they wanted, they could join the Vulkan effort which is already cross platform. They never cared which clearly demonstrates where their interests lie. The proper progress is for such lock-in to be replaced with Vulkan which is by design an open and cross platform API, not to proliferate blobs on Linux.