1// Copyright 2023-2024 The Khronos Group Inc. 2// SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0 3 4include::{generated}/meta/{refprefix}VK_KHR_maintenance6.adoc[] 5 6=== Other Extension Metadata 7 8*Last Modified Date*:: 9 2023-08-03 10 11*Interactions and External Dependencies*:: 12 - Interacts with `apiext:VK_EXT_robustness2` 13 14*Contributors*:: 15 - Jon Leech, Khronos 16 - Stu Smith, AMD 17 - Mike Blumenkrantz, Valve 18 - Ralph Potter, Samsung 19 - James Fitzpatrick, Imagination Technologies 20 - Piers Daniell, NVIDIA 21 - Daniel Story, Nintendo 22 23=== Description 24 25apiext:VK_KHR_maintenance6 adds a collection of minor features, none of 26which would warrant an entire extension of their own. 27 28The new features are as follows: 29 30 * slink:VkBindMemoryStatusKHR may be included in the pname:pNext chain of 31 slink:VkBindBufferMemoryInfo and slink:VkBindImageMemoryInfo, allowing 32 applications to identify individual resources for which memory binding 33 failed during calls to flink:vkBindBufferMemory2 and 34 flink:vkBindImageMemory2. 35 * A new property pname:fragmentShadingRateClampCombinerInputs to indicate 36 if an implementation clamps the inputs to fragment shading rate combiner 37 operations. 38 * dlink:VK_NULL_HANDLE is allowed to be used when binding an index buffer, 39 instead of a valid slink:VkBuffer handle. 40 When the <<features-nullDescriptor, pname:nullDescriptor>> feature is 41 enabled, every index fetched results in a value of zero. 42 * A new property pname:maxCombinedImageSamplerDescriptorCount to indicate 43 the maximum number of descriptors needed for any of the 44 <<formats-requiring-sampler-ycbcr-conversion, formats that require a 45 sampler {YCbCr} conversion>> supported by the implementation. 46 * A new property pname:blockTexelViewCompatibleMultipleLayers indicating 47 whether ename:VK_IMAGE_CREATE_BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW_COMPATIBLE_BIT is allowed 48 to be used with pname:layerCount > 1 49 * pname:pNext extensible *2 versions of all descriptor binding commands. 50 51include::{generated}/interfaces/VK_KHR_maintenance6.adoc[] 52 53=== Issues 54 55None. 56 57=== Version History 58 59 * Revision 1, 2023-08-01 (Jon Leech) 60 ** Initial revision 61