DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
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DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#2> This also enables third party APIs, such as the popular NVIDIA Cuda compute API, to be hardware accelerated within a WSL environment.
Dollars to donuts this is why Microsoft is implementing this. GPU acceleration is becoming a critical feature for many users (but especially developers) and this will continue. If WSL is to be a serious competitor, this is necessary and I'm glad to see it showing up. This is true of cloud compute, too, and Microsoft is betting big on cloud as its future growth area.
> Only the rendering/compute aspect of the GPU are projected to the virtual machine, no display functionality is exposed.
The Linux gaming folks will be pretty sad about this one. Anyway, this isn't really a Linux port of DirectX. This is GPU compute via DirectX APIs.
So now, I'm just waiting on monitor mode/AF_PACKET for WSL...
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#3FYI:
This is the first draft of the Microsoft Virtual GPU (vGPU) driver. The driver exposes a paravirtualized GPU to user mode applications running in a virtual machine on a Windows host. This enables hardware acceleration in environment such as WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) where the Linux virtual machine is able to share the GPU with the Windows host.
So this isn't actual "DirectX on Linux", just a driver for a virtual GPU exposed to WSL-guests to enable guests to directly use DirectX, more or less.
Probably most useful for Azure-based projects.
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#4The linked blog post in TFA has a clearer title: "DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux"
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#5The Year of the linux desktop has come
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#6...and extend. I'm sure this architecture was easier for MS but it opens the door to code that runs on WSL2 that doesn't run on regular Linux.
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#7> This also enables third party APIs, such as the popular NVIDIA Cuda compute API, to be hardware accelerated within a WSL environment. Dollars to donuts this is why Microsoft is implementing this. GPU acceleration is becoming a critical feature for many users (but especially developers) and this will continue. If WSL is to be a serious competitor, this is necessary and I'm glad to see it showing up. This is true of…
Do ML people actually care about DirectX? I thought everyone is using CUDA? Anyway in my university building I have not seen anyone that does machine learning on Windows.
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#8> This also enables third party APIs, such as the popular NVIDIA Cuda compute API, to be hardware accelerated within a WSL environment. Dollars to donuts this is why Microsoft is implementing this. GPU acceleration is becoming a critical feature for many users (but especially developers) and this will continue. If WSL is to be a serious competitor, this is necessary and I'm glad to see it showing up. This is true of…
The associated blog post (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/) does have more details on exposing display functionality. There is no swapchain functionality yet, but it's clear they're working on it, and part of the work is "DxCore", which seems to be a cleaned up and simplified version of DXGI. So not now, but soon.
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#9...and extend. I'm sure this architecture was easier for MS but it opens the door to code that runs on WSL2 that doesn't run on regular Linux.
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Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#10> This also enables third party APIs, such as the popular NVIDIA Cuda compute API, to be hardware accelerated within a WSL environment. Dollars to donuts this is why Microsoft is implementing this. GPU acceleration is becoming a critical feature for many users (but especially developers) and this will continue. If WSL is to be a serious competitor, this is necessary and I'm glad to see it showing up. This is true of…
Yes, machine learning is the first priority as they say in the thread. However, the blog post goes on to say that window system integration is coming. This will eventually be a full graphics stack.
> Anyway, this isn't really a Linux port of DirectX
The entire user mode side of Direct3D is ported, in addition to the user mode parts of the Nvidia, AMD, and Intel graphics drivers.