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Webinar: Vulkan Loader Deep Dive
Khronos Vulkan Webinar
March 23, 2017

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Webinar: Vulkan Loader Deep Dive

Date: March 23, 2017
Time: 8:00am (Pacific)
Location: Online

The Vulkan loader plays a critical role in your Vulkan application by loading the drivers and layers available on your system. This webinar will provide a deep dive into the design and behavior of the loader's interfaces between applications, layers, and drivers.

We will cover the following:

  • What is the Loader?
  • Dispatchable Objects
  • Instance versus Device Objects/Commands
  • Trampolines and Terminators
  • Manifest Files
  • What’s Exposed by Default?
  • Extension Handling
  • Loader/ICD Interaction
  • Loader/Layer Interface
  • Loader Security

We will have a time for Q&A after the presentation. The presentation and Q&A will be conducted in English.
This webinar is hosted by the Khronos Group and presented by LunarG.

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