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Vulkan is now available on NetBSD

https://github.com/segaboy/vulkan-netbsd
38•segaboy81•2h ago

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rjsw•1h ago
There are already Vulkan components in pkgsrc and wip.
wbolt•1h ago
This is a nice project but looks like is either AI written or AI assisted and I haven’t seen mention of that in any of the docs.
qiu3344•1h ago
> Vulkan is now available

looks inside:

> What this is NOT (yet): Running Vulkan programs

LoganDark•9m ago
Technically, it isn't wrong, if you consider Vulkan the technology rather than the service
Tiberium•1h ago
Lavapipe is CPU rendering, it doesn't really prove much. But also, Vulkan on BSDs is totally possible and isn't something esoteric, FreeBSD has it.

> Build goal only: This targets compilation and linkage of the Vulkan stack. Runtime GPU acceleration is not available under VirtualBox; the software driver (Lavapipe) is the target.

I don't understand why this would ever be a problem, even without LLM assistance it's something that sounds like a weekend project?

MBCook•59m ago
I expected this to be official from the title but it doesn’t seem to be.
klibertp•57m ago
Installation instructions:

    ftp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/segaboy/vulkan-netbsd/main/scripts/setup-env.sh
       !^^^^^!
That's... a bit unorthodox. FreeBSD has a `fetch`[1] utility for this, I wasn't aware NetBSD puts that in `ftp`[2].

Interesting choice. I wonder what led to it.

[1] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fetch

[2] https://man.netbsd.org/ftp.1

iberator•49m ago
Oldest supported machine for NetBSD is VAX 780 from 1978(!!!). One of the first system supporting mmu, 32 bit cpu, virtual memory etc etc

This machine is so slow that it takes a lot of time to generate ssh keys etc. We talking here hours hehe

NetBSD is known to support like 60 architectures - many of them low end embedded systems: so ftp AS A CHOICE (you have other options!) is very smart and easy

spijdar•22m ago
I think GP is confused why the ftp command also handles http(s) :)

I hate to imagine what a 780 running NetBSD would be like, too.

I tried netbooting NetBSD on my MicroVAX 3400, which is about 2.5x the performance of the 780. It did, literally, take 6+ hours to slog through making RSA keys.

klibertp•11m ago
> I think GP is confused why the ftp command also handles http(s) :)

Exactly - I even suspected for a second that `ftp` on NetBSD is something else entirely, not an actual FTP client with HTTP/HTTPS URLs bolted on. It's not - it still accepts a host as an argument and opens a CLI if there's an FTP server to talk to.

iamnothere•41m ago
I have never had a need for NetBSD, but in case I ever do, I’m glad it’s there. Especially with Linux deprecating old platforms.

This looks like an unofficial effort but hopefully it gets refined and integrated.

Tiberium•32m ago
NetBSD already has relevant packages officially.

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