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		flohofwoe 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time > ...efforts to have only Vulkan, with OpenGL ES on top... Ok this made me laugh given that Vulkan support on Android is so bad that WebGPU needs a fallback mode to GLES ;) https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/4266

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pjmlp 4 days ago [–]

Agreed, which is Google's motivation for doing that.

The argument being that if Android only does Vulkan, that OEMs will be forced to care about their drivers.

There are talks done by Google on this, either Vulkanised, Google IO, or GDC, can't remember now the exact one.

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