Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver
Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver Written by Michael Larabel in Mesa on 30 July 2026 at 06:18 AM EDT. Add A Comment A Huawei engineer posted to the Mesa mailing list today over potentially upstreaming a Vulkan driver they have developed for an in-house GPU. However, at least in current form, this new in-house GPU Vulkan driver is likely dead in the water from being upstreamed into Mesa.
- ▪Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver Written by Michael Larabel in Mesa on 30 July 2026 at 06:18 AM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment A Huawei engineer posted to the Mesa mailing list today over potentially upstreaming a Vulkan driver they have developed for an in-house GPU.
- ▪However, at least in current form, this new in-house GPU Vulkan driver is likely dead in the water from being upstreamed into Mesa.
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Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver Written by Michael Larabel in Mesa on 30 July 2026 at 06:18 AM EDT. Add A Comment A Huawei engineer posted to the Mesa mailing list today over potentially upstreaming a Vulkan driver they have developed for an in-house GPU. However, at least in current form, this new in-house GPU Vulkan driver is likely dead in the water from being upstreamed into Mesa. While it's interesting from a technical perspective that Huawei has developed a Vulkan driver using the Mesa Vulkan Runtime for an in-house GPU, it's a half-assed open-source attempt as they note that the shader compiler cannot be open-source.
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