Blender had some support for using MoltenVK. However there are some key
issues why MotlenVK cannot be used. Bugs have been reported up-stream.
As it doesn't work and holds back regular developments it will be removed
from the main branch.
Any efforts on making Vulkan run on Apple (including KosmicKrisp)
is considered a community effort and can be done in a development
branch.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144602
The goal is to solve confusion of the "All rights reserved" for licensing
code under an open-source license.
The phrase "All rights reserved" comes from a historical convention that
required this phrase for the copyright protection to apply. This convention
is no longer relevant.
However, even though the phrase has no meaning in establishing the copyright
it has not lost meaning in terms of licensing.
This change makes it so code under the Blender Foundation copyright does
not use "all rights reserved". This is also how the GPL license itself
states how to apply it to the source code:
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software ...
This change does not change copyright notice in cases when the copyright
is dual (BF and an author), or just an author of the code. It also does
mot change copyright which is inherited from NaN Holding BV as it needs
some further investigation about what is the proper way to handle it.
Paths to vulkan libraries, paths and related components were
hardcoded in the platform cmake file. This patch separates
this by using adding CMake modules for Vulkan and ShaderC.
This change has only been applied to the macOs configuration as
that is currently our main platform for development. Other platforms
will be added during the development of the Vulkan back-end.
Vulkan doesn't have a memory allocator builtin. The application should
provide the memory allocator at runtime. Vulkan Memory Allocator is a
widely used implementation.
Vulkan Memory Allocator is a header only implementation, but the using
application should compile a part in a CPP compile unit. The file
`vk_mem_alloc_impl.cc` and `extern_vulkan_memory_allocator` library
is therefore introduced.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16572
