Is it really "DirectX on Linux," or more like "DirectX on Windows Subsystem for Linux?" Is it going to be useful for Linux in general, outside WSL?
DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#22The Year of the linux desktop has come
The sheer hilarity of Microsoft doing this work cannot be over-chuckled.
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#23Did anyone see the comments?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/19/960 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/19/1288
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#24I remember when DirectX was a huge obstacle to porting games to Linux. This feels like a great, great victory for Linux to me!
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
This patch adds WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) as a Linux kernel API. The implementation just forwards to the Windows kernel, but it seems to me like someone could implement it natively in Linux. Then Windows user mode graphics drivers would work natively in Linux without WSL, and DX12 too.
someone could implement it natively in Linux This is exactly what we don't want. There's already plenty of effort wasted on GBM vs. EGLStream so introducing a third API would just lower quality even more.
This isn't merely another API, though. It's the one against which most graphics drivers are written.
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
This patch adds WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) as a Linux kernel API. The implementation just forwards to the Windows kernel, but it seems to me like someone could implement it natively in Linux. Then Windows user mode graphics drivers would work natively in Linux without WSL, and DX12 too.
someone could implement it natively in Linux This is exactly what we don't want. There's already plenty of effort wasted on GBM vs. EGLStream so introducing a third API would just lower quality even more.
This "third API" is already well supported by every relevant graphics vendor. Adopting it would actually reduce the number of APIs vendors need to deal with. And the quality of WDDM drivers has always been higher than anything Linux has.
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#27FYI: 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…
This sounds like an attempt to win back ML segment from Linux to Windows. There are three letters back in my mind that sound like screaming, but too early to tell unfortunately.
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#28DirectX on WSL and DirectX on Linux are not the same thing.
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#29> 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…
They are also adding an wayland server.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...
Re: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
#30The Year of the linux desktop has come
This is not a port of DirectX for Linux. This extends the functionality of WSL at the expense of desktop Linux.