Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

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119 points by electricant9 hours ago

6 comments

mutkach3 hours ago
That’s like (at least) third GPU-related project named Triton
- cl3misch2 hours ago
 I was expecting DirectX in triton-lang <a href="https://github.com/triton-lang/triton" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/triton-lang/triton</a>
jamesu3 hours ago
Pretty cool to finally have a decent open 3d solution for windows vms. Now if only someone made an opengl driver for older intel macosx vms...
- conradev3 hours ago
 People are working on it!<a href="https://github.com/steelbrain/reims-vgpu" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/steelbrain/reims-vgpu</a><a href="https://github.com/steelbrain/metal2vulkan" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/steelbrain/metal2vulkan</a>
- cactusplant73743 hours ago
 Not exactly what you are looking for... but I am working on a 32 bit intel mac emulator. OpenGL support is pretty far along at this point.
 - rufo2 hours ago
 Ooh, is this public anywhere? Definitely an area of interest of mine :)
 - cactusplant73742 hours ago
 Not yet. I'm working on getting a release out by the end of the year. It won't be open source but there will be a free trial.
anonymousiam4 hours ago
Also covered here: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Triton-DirectX-11-QEMU-Driver" rel="nofollow">https://www.phoronix.com/news/Triton-DirectX-11-QEMU-Driver</a>
thehias3 hours ago
why always only DX11, why not DX12? Parallels and VMWARE can also do only DX11??
- tyfon2 hours ago
 DX11 is much more high level while DX12 implements direct control over the GPU. 12 is much more like vulkan.I guess since this is emulating the device instead of just passing the commands to vulkan it is easier to do DX11, but I could be wrong about this particular implementation.
- Squarex2 hours ago
 DX12 is much more complex to implement. Very different API.
iberator5 hours ago
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- cassepipe5 hours ago
 I have never heard anyone diss qemu before. Care to elaborate?
 - asveikau5 hours ago
 The other thing is that qemu is so many things. It can be a CPU emulator, a full system emulator, and a frontend to a virtualization engine. And all of this for so many different systems. It's kind of remarkable that all of this is called by the same name.
 - sph5 hours ago
 It’s called trolling. You’re not supposed to feed the troll.
 - cassepipe53 minutes ago
 I don't think someone expressing a unsubstantiated negative opinion is akin to trollingI would define trolling as a low-effort/sloppy attempt at a counterargumentation whose sole point is to ragebait you into looking unhinged in your response so that we can make fun of you
 - asveikau4 hours ago
 You never know what's going on in the mind of another person, they could have something going on that makes them feel negatively about qemu. We can project our stress into all kinds of strange places.
ramshanker5 hours ago
Maybe this is one of those topics to let an army of agents get loose.Nothing to lose and a lot to gain.
- truncate5 hours ago
 This is also one of things that needs to be well optimized to be any useful. Army of agents may get an implementation, but not sure it will be actually useful, and I'm also not sure if optimizing that implementation is going to be easier than more well paced use of LLM where person actually understands what code is being generated.
 - wrobelda4 hours ago
 You seem to contradict yourself. Army of agents doesn't mean the person doing that doesn't understand the code. And optimization is required no matter whether the bulk of the code is written by hand or by the machine. LLMs definitely make things actually doable where previously they were nearly impossible.
 - acedTrex4 hours ago
 > Army of agents doesn't mean the person doing that doesn't understand the codeThis is quite literally, objectively what it means lol. No human will ever seen it.
- croes3 hours ago
 Energy consumption and CO2 emission it causes is a pretty big lose
 - compiler-devel23 minutes ago
 This argument, while totally valid, will never halt the build out of data centers nor hamper the development of AI.