We can let the GPU do its stuff without waiting. The GPU knows what it's
doing.
Which means we now get a lot of time to spend on doing CPU things (read:
we're way better in benchmarks).
The old behavior is safer, so we want to keep it around for debugging.
It can be reenabled with GSK_RENDERING_MODE=sync.
And move the actual rendering code there.
A RenderPass is a collection of operations on the same target that
get executed one after another. It roughly targets VkRenderPass or
rather the subpasses of a VkRenderPass.
For now, only the infrastructure is there. No real stuff is happening.
This is refactoring work.
GskVulkanRender is supposed to be the global object for a render
operation, ie GskVulkanRenderer.render() will create this object for
what it does.
The object will be split into stages that perform the operations
necessary to create a drawing.
Instead of using a staging iamge, we require the final image to be
linearly allocated and have host-visible memory.
This improves performance quite a bit.
The old code is still there and can be enabled with a simple change
to a #define in gskvulkanimage.h
Instead, complain if somebody calls gdk_x11_window_get_xid() on a
non-native window.
We cannot make random windows native anymore because there's no GSK
renderer associated with them, so we cannot draw them.
We can now upload vertices.
And we use this to draw a yellow background. Which is clearly superior
to not drawing anything.
Also, we have shaders now. If you modify them, you need glslc installed
so they can be recompiled into Spir-V bytecode.
1. Output Vulkan status in summary
2. Add missing "test" call
3. Check for glslc
The glslc check will be necessary later for the code that automatically
compiles the Vulkan glsl source to Spir-V.
Nothing happens if glslc is not available - unless you modify the glsl.
gdk_window_create_vulkan_context() now exists and will return a Vulkan
context for the given window. It even initializes the surface. But it
doesn't do anything useful yet.
Adds the gdk_display_ref_vulkan() and gdk_display_unref_vulkan()
functions which setup/tear down VUlkan support for the display.
Nothing is using those functions yet.
These only exist for the window dragging which does not exist anymore
currently. It will be reintroduced later in a form that does not require
these handlers.
I read the code as if (use_gl) instead of if (!use_gl) and commented it
out in bddfd7bb41. That broke drawing on
Wayland without OpenGL completely.
Whoops.
Now it's back.
There were some parts that need some updates after the refactoring in
GDKGL, so that the code will continue to build and run.
For gdkwindow-win32.c, comment out the parts where we check for use_gl
(which was removed), since we are going to move all drawing to OpenGL,
but don't remove/disable the whole portion as that transition is not
complete at this point.
There a is new GDKGL function that checks for the damaged area of the back
buffer, but since the notion of "damage" is for *NIX (GLX/EGL for
Wayland/mir), meaning that there is no such extension for Windows in this
regard, so we can't support this on Windows as-is, at least for now.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773299
This is a way to query the damaged area of the backbuffer.
The GL renderer uses this to compute the extents of that damage region
(computed via buffer age) and use them to minimize the area to redraw.
This changes the semantics of GL rendering to "When calling
gdk_window_begin_frame() with a GL context, the area by
gdk_gl_context_get_damage() needs to be redrawn and every other pixel of
the backbuffer is guaranteed to be correct.
After gdk_window_end_frame() on a GL-drawn window, the whole backbuffer
must be correct.
We can always glXBufferSwap() now because of this.
