Registered Extension Number

546

Revision

1

Ratification Status

Ratified

Extension and Version Dependencies

Version 1.1

API Interactions

  • Interacts with VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer

  • Interacts with VK_KHR_push_descriptor

Contact

Extension Proposal

VK_KHR_maintenance6

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2023-08-03

Interactions and External Dependencies
Contributors

  • Jon Leech, Khronos

  • Stu Smith, AMD

  • Mike Blumenkrantz, Valve

  • Ralph Potter, Samsung

  • James Fitzpatrick, Imagination Technologies

  • Piers Daniell, NVIDIA

  • Daniel Story, Nintendo

Description

VK_KHR_maintenance6 adds a collection of minor features, none of which would warrant an entire extension of their own.

The new features are as follows:

  • VkBindMemoryStatusKHR may be included in the pNext chain of VkBindBufferMemoryInfo and VkBindImageMemoryInfo, allowing applications to identify individual resources for which memory binding failed during calls to vkBindBufferMemory2 and vkBindImageMemory2.

  • A new property fragmentShadingRateClampCombinerInputs to indicate if an implementation clamps the inputs to fragment shading rate combiner operations.

  • VK_NULL_HANDLE is allowed to be used when binding an index buffer, instead of a valid VkBuffer handle. When the nullDescriptor feature is enabled, every index fetched results in a value of zero.

  • A new property maxCombinedImageSamplerDescriptorCount to indicate the maximum number of descriptors needed for any of the formats that require a sampler Y′CBCR conversion supported by the implementation.

  • A new property blockTexelViewCompatibleMultipleLayers indicating whether VK_IMAGE_CREATE_BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW_COMPATIBLE_BIT is allowed to be used with layerCount > 1

  • pNext extensible *2 versions of all descriptor binding commands.

New Commands

If VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer is supported:

If VK_KHR_push_descriptor is supported:

New Structures

If VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer is supported:

If VK_KHR_push_descriptor is supported:

New Enum Constants

  • VK_KHR_MAINTENANCE_6_EXTENSION_NAME

  • VK_KHR_MAINTENANCE_6_SPEC_VERSION

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BIND_DESCRIPTOR_SETS_INFO_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BIND_MEMORY_STATUS_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_MAINTENANCE_6_FEATURES_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_MAINTENANCE_6_PROPERTIES_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PUSH_CONSTANTS_INFO_KHR

If VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer is supported:

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BIND_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_EMBEDDED_SAMPLERS_INFO_EXT

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_SET_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_OFFSETS_INFO_EXT

If VK_KHR_push_descriptor is supported:

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PUSH_DESCRIPTOR_SET_INFO_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PUSH_DESCRIPTOR_SET_WITH_TEMPLATE_INFO_KHR

Issues

None.

Version History

  • Revision 1, 2023-08-01 (Jon Leech)

    • Initial revision

See Also

No cross-references are available

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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Copyright

Copyright 2014-2024 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0