Yup, derived from a point in time where Vulkan was seen as a direct successor to OpenGL.
I suppose credit where due, AMD did kind of put an end to mantle, and give that over to the Khronos group to later become Vulkan. XGL as the UMD reference may predate the name Vulkan altogether.
Yeah, at one point vulkan was called glNext so I guess it isn’t that wild. Although I’m surprised they would have started development on a driver before any spec was fully agreed on. Unless they just reworked their mantle driver to become their vulkan driver?
I wouldn’t be surprised if something like that was the case. Could have been that the successive work was negotiated with khronos & lunarg before the final name was chosen.
The windows vulkan driver is called XGL? That’s not confusing lol
Yup, derived from a point in time where Vulkan was seen as a direct successor to OpenGL.
I suppose credit where due, AMD did kind of put an end to mantle, and give that over to the Khronos group to later become Vulkan. XGL as the UMD reference may predate the name Vulkan altogether.
Yeah, at one point vulkan was called glNext so I guess it isn’t that wild. Although I’m surprised they would have started development on a driver before any spec was fully agreed on. Unless they just reworked their mantle driver to become their vulkan driver?
I wouldn’t be surprised if something like that was the case. Could have been that the successive work was negotiated with khronos & lunarg before the final name was chosen.