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Vulkan.Extensions.VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2

Description

Name

VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 - instance extension

VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2

Name String: VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2

Extension Type

Instance extension

Registered Extension Number

60

Revision

2

Extension and Version Dependencies

Requires support for Vulkan 1.0

Deprecation state

Promoted to Vulkan 1.1

Contact

Jeff Bolz @jeffbolznv%0A*Here describe the issue or question you have about the VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 extension*

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date: 2017-09-05

IP Status

No known IP claims.

Interactions and External Dependencies

Promoted to Vulkan 1.1 Core

Contributors

Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA
Ian Elliott, Google

Description

This extension provides new entry points to query device features, device properties, and format properties in a way that can be easily extended by other extensions, without introducing any further entry points. The Vulkan 1.0 feature/limit/formatproperty structures do not include sType/pNext members. This extension wraps them in new structures with sType/pNext members, so an application can query a chain of feature/limit/formatproperty structures by constructing the chain and letting the implementation fill them in. A new command is added for each vkGetPhysicalDevice* command in core Vulkan 1.0. The new feature structure (and a pNext chain of extending structures) can also be passed in to device creation to enable features.

This extension also allows applications to use the physical-device components of device extensions before createDevice is called.

Promotion to Vulkan 1.1

All functionality in this extension is included in core Vulkan 1.1, with the KHR suffix omitted. The original type, enum and command names are still available as aliases of the core functionality.

New Commands

getPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR

New Structures

FormatProperties2KHR

New Enum Constants

KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2_EXTENSION_NAME

Examples

    // Get features with a hypothetical future extension.
    VkHypotheticalExtensionFeaturesKHR hypotheticalFeatures =
    {
        VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_HYPOTHETICAL_FEATURES_KHR,                // sType
        NULL,                                                       // pNext
    };

    VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR features =
    {
        VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_FEATURES_2_KHR,           // sType
        &hypotheticalFeatures,                                      // pNext
    };

    // After this call, features and hypotheticalFeatures have been filled out.
    vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR(physicalDevice, &features);

    // Properties/limits can be chained and queried similarly.

    // Enable some features:
    VkHypotheticalExtensionFeaturesKHR enabledHypotheticalFeatures =
    {
        VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_HYPOTHETICAL_FEATURES_KHR,                // sType
        NULL,                                                       // pNext
    };

    VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR enabledFeatures =
    {
        VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_FEATURES_2_KHR,           // sType
        &enabledHypotheticalFeatures,                               // pNext
    };

    enabledFeatures.features.xyz = VK_TRUE;
    enabledHypotheticalFeatures.abc = VK_TRUE;

    VkDeviceCreateInfo deviceCreateInfo =
    {
        VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_CREATE_INFO,                       // sType
        &enabledFeatures,                                           // pNext
        ...
        NULL,                                                       // pEnabledFeatures
    };

    VkDevice device;
    vkCreateDevice(physicalDevice, &deviceCreateInfo, NULL, &device);

Version History

Revision 1, 2016-09-12 (Jeff Bolz)
- Internal revisions

Revision 2, 2016-11-02 (Ian Elliott)
- Added ability for applications to use the physical-device components of device extensions before vkCreateDevice is called.