// Copyright (c) 2014-2018 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a // Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; see // http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ include::meta/VK_KHR_wayland_surface.txt[] *Last Modified Date*:: 2015-11-28 *IP Status*:: No known IP claims. *Contributors*:: - Patrick Doane, Blizzard - Jason Ekstrand, Intel - Ian Elliott, LunarG - Courtney Goeltzenleuchter, LunarG - Jesse Hall, Google - James Jones, NVIDIA - Antoine Labour, Google - Jon Leech, Khronos - David Mao, AMD - Norbert Nopper, Freescale - Alon Or-bach, Samsung - Daniel Rakos, AMD - Graham Sellers, AMD - Ray Smith, ARM - Jeff Vigil, Qualcomm - Chia-I Wu, LunarG The `VK_KHR_wayland_surface` extension is an instance extension. It provides a mechanism to create a slink:VkSurfaceKHR object (defined by the `<>` extension) that refers to a Wayland code:wl_surface, as well as a query to determine support for rendering to a Wayland compositor. === New Object Types None === New Enum Constants * Extending elink:VkStructureType: ** ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_WAYLAND_SURFACE_CREATE_INFO_KHR === New Enums None === New Structures * slink:VkWaylandSurfaceCreateInfoKHR === New Functions * flink:vkCreateWaylandSurfaceKHR * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceWaylandPresentationSupportKHR === Issues 1) Does Wayland need a way to query for compatibility between a particular physical device and a specific Wayland display? This would be a more general query than flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceSupportKHR: if the Wayland-specific query returned ename:VK_TRUE for a (slink:VkPhysicalDevice, `struct wl_display*`) pair, then the physical device could be assumed to support presentation to any slink:VkSurfaceKHR for surfaces on the display. *RESOLVED*: Yes. flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceWaylandPresentationSupportKHR was added to address this issue. 2) Should we require surfaces created with flink:vkCreateWaylandSurfaceKHR to support the ename:VK_PRESENT_MODE_MAILBOX_KHR present mode? *RESOLVED*: Yes. Wayland is an inherently mailbox window system and mailbox support is required for some Wayland compositor interactions to work as expected. While handling these interactions may be possible with ename:VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_KHR, it is much more difficult to do without deadlock and requiring all Wayland applications to be able to support implementations which only support ename:VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_KHR would be an onerous restriction on application developers. === Version History * Revision 1, 2015-09-23 (Jesse Hall) - Initial draft, based on the previous contents of VK_EXT_KHR_swapchain (later renamed VK_EXT_KHR_surface). * Revision 2, 2015-10-02 (James Jones) - Added vkGetPhysicalDeviceWaylandPresentationSupportKHR() to resolve issue #1. - Adjusted wording of issue #1 to match the agreed-upon solution. - Renamed "window" parameters to "surface" to match Wayland conventions. * Revision 3, 2015-10-26 (Ian Elliott) - Renamed from VK_EXT_KHR_wayland_surface to VK_KHR_wayland_surface. * Revision 4, 2015-11-03 (Daniel Rakos) - Added allocation callbacks to vkCreateWaylandSurfaceKHR. * Revision 5, 2015-11-28 (Daniel Rakos) - Updated the surface create function to take a pCreateInfo structure. * Revision 6, 2017-02-08 (Jason Ekstrand) - Added the requirement that implementations support ename:VK_PRESENT_MODE_MAILBOX_KHR. - Added wording about interactions between flink:vkQueuePresentKHR and the Wayland requests sent to the compositor.