VK_KHR_portability_subset(3)

# VK_KHR_portability_subset(3) Manual Page

## Name

VK_KHR_portability_subset - device extension

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## Registered Extension Number

164

## Revision

1

## Ratification Status

Ratified

## Extension and Version Dependencies

VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2
or
Vulkan Version 1.1

- This is a provisional extension and must be used with caution. See the description of provisional header files for enablement and stability details.

## Contact

- Bill Hollings [GitHub]billhollings

## Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

  2020-07-21

IP Status

  No known IP claims.

Contributors

  - Bill Hollings, The Brenwill Workshop Ltd.

  - Daniel Koch, NVIDIA

  - Dzmitry Malyshau, Mozilla

  - Chip Davis, CodeWeavers

  - Dan Ginsburg, Valve

  - Mike Weiblen, LunarG

  - Neil Trevett, NVIDIA

  - Alexey Knyazev, Independent

## Description

The `VK_KHR_portability_subset` extension allows a non-conformant Vulkan implementation to be built on top of another non-Vulkan graphics API, and identifies differences between that implementation and a fully-conformant native Vulkan implementation.

This extension provides Vulkan implementations with the ability to mark otherwise-required capabilities as unsupported, or to establish additional properties and limits that the application should adhere to in order to guarantee portable behavior and operation across platforms, including platforms where Vulkan is not natively supported.

The goal of this specification is to document, and make queryable, capabilities which are required to be supported by a fully-conformant Vulkan 1.0 implementation, but may be optional for an implementation of the Vulkan 1.0 Portability Subset.

The intent is that this extension will be advertised only on implementations of the Vulkan 1.0 Portability Subset, and not on conformant implementations of Vulkan 1.0. Fully-conformant Vulkan implementations provide all the required capabilities, and so will not provide this extension. Therefore, the existence of this extension can be used to determine that an implementation is likely not fully conformant with the Vulkan spec.

If this extension is supported by the Vulkan implementation, the application must enable this extension.

This extension defines several new structures that can be chained to the existing structures used by certain standard Vulkan calls, in order to query for non-conformant portable behavior.

## New Structures

- Extending VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, VkDeviceCreateInfo:

  - VkPhysicalDevicePortabilitySubsetFeaturesKHR

- Extending VkPhysicalDeviceProperties2:

  - VkPhysicalDevicePortabilitySubsetPropertiesKHR

## New Enum Constants

- `VK_KHR_PORTABILITY_SUBSET_EXTENSION_NAME`

- `VK_KHR_PORTABILITY_SUBSET_SPEC_VERSION`

- Extending VkStructureType:

  - VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PORTABILITY_SUBSET_FEATURES_KHR

  - VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PORTABILITY_SUBSET_PROPERTIES_KHR

## Issues

None.

## Version History

- Revision 1, 2020-07-21 (Bill Hollings)

  - Initial draft.

## See Also

No cross-references are available

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

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## Copyright

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