This extension allows multiple device memory objects to be bound in one
call. It also provides extensible versions of the memory binding calls.
It is a prerequisite for both the `VK_KHR_device_group` and
`VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion` extensions.
The `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_ALIAS_BIT`, also added in this extension, would be
more interesting if we used `MTLHeap` objects for device memory, since
that would determine whether or not we would make images aliasable.
This allows clients to create views of a swapchain image with a
different format, just like a regular image created with the
`VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT` set. This extension also supports
the additional features provided by `VK_KHR_maintenance2` and
`VK_KHR_image_format_list` for swapchain images.
We... admittedly don't do much with any of this. There wasn't really
anything in Metal stopping clients from doing this to begin with. This
change does, however, set the `MUTABLE_FORMAT` and `EXTENDED_USAGE`
image bits on any swapchain created with the new
`VK_SWAPCHAIN_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT_KHR`.
Only the `shaderFloat16` feature is supported for now. The `shaderInt8`
feature may require additional work on SPIRV-Cross.
Update Vulkan-Headers to 1.1.95 to pull in the definitions for this new
extension.
Based on a patch by Stefan Dösinger.
Metal cannot do signedness conversion on vertex attributes, and for good
reason. Putting a `uint4` into an `int4`, or a `char4` into a `uint4`,
would lose those values that are outside the range of the target type.
But putting a `uchar4` into a `short4` or an `int4`, or a `ushort4` into
an `int4`, should work. In that case, force the signedness in the shader
to match the declared type of the host.
Update SPIRV-Cross to pull in the corresponding change. Bump MoltenVK
version.
They were using `Int32`/`UInt32`, which is fine I guess, but wasteful in
the blit/clear shaders. This will be more important later, when I work
around a bug in Metal.
Requires Metal 2.1 on Mac. Not supported at all on iOS.
I'm split as to whether or not to have
`mvkMTLTextureTypeFromVkImageType()` return
`MTLTextureType2DMultisampleArray`.
SPIRV-Cross already handles this. This extension was promoted to core in
Vulkan 1.1, and is a requirement for multiple other extensions, some of
which were also promoted to core in 1.1.
Update to latest dependency libraries for Vulkan SDK 1.1.92.
Generate Hologram demo dispatch files in fetchDependencies and remove them from git.
Update MoltenVK version to 1.0.27.
Update What's New document.
