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1// Copyright (c) 2017-2018 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a
2// Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; see
3// http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
4
5include::meta/VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2.txt[]
6
7*Last Modified Date*::
8    2017-02-27
9*IP Status*::
10    No known IP claims.
11*Contributors*::
12  - Ian Elliott, Google
13  - James Jones, NVIDIA
14  - Alon Or-bach, Samsung
15
16This extension provides new entry points to query device surface
17capabilities in a way that can be easily extended by other extensions,
18without introducing any further entry points.
19This extension can be considered the `<<VK_KHR_surface>>` equivalent of the
20`<<VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2>>` extension.
21
22=== New Object Types
23
24None.
25
26=== New Enum Constants
27
28  * Extending elink:VkStructureType:
29  ** ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_SURFACE_INFO_2_KHR
30  ** ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_SURFACE_CAPABILITIES_2_KHR
31  ** ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_SURFACE_FORMAT_2_KHR
32
33=== New Enums
34
35None.
36
37=== New Structures
38
39  * slink:VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR
40  * slink:VkSurfaceCapabilities2KHR
41  * slink:VkSurfaceFormat2KHR
42
43=== New Functions
44
45  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilities2KHR
46  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceFormats2KHR
47
48=== Issues
49
501) What should this extension be named?
51
52*RESOLVED*: `VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2`.
53Other alternatives:
54
55  * `VK_KHR_surface2`
56  * One extension, combining a separate display-specific query extension.
57
582) Should additional WSI query functions be extended?
59
60*RESOLVED*:
61
62  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR: Yes.
63    The need for this motivated the extension.
64  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceSupportKHR: No.
65    Currently only has boolean output.
66    Extensions should instead extend
67    flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilities2KHR.
68  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceFormatsKHR: Yes.
69  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfacePresentModesKHR: No.
70    Recent discussion concluded this introduced too much variability for
71    applications to deal with.
72    Extensions should instead extend
73    flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilities2KHR.
74  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceXlibPresentationSupportKHR: Not in this
75    extension.
76  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceXcbPresentationSupportKHR: Not in this
77    extension.
78  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceWaylandPresentationSupportKHR: Not in this
79    extension.
80  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceMirPresentationSupportKHR: Not in this
81    extension.
82  * flink:vkGetPhysicalDeviceWin32PresentationSupportKHR: Not in this
83    extension.
84
85=== Version History
86
87 * Revision 1, 2017-02-27 (James Jones)
88   - Initial draft.
89