This is the best summary I could come up with:

The open-source NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver within the Mesa codebase has merged support for the important VK_EXT_shader_object and VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library extensions.

Additionally, as part of supporting these new extensions, this introduces the code for a common Vulkan runtime to Mesa.

It also adds a common framework to the runtime which makes implementing shader object as well as all variations of pipelines a whole lot easier.

I may also try to land some of the more clean-up type vulkan runtime patches separately, leaving the bulk of the shader object framework here."

VK_EXT_shader_object introduces the VkShaderEXT object type for representing a single compiled shader stage.

These new extensions and common Vulkan runtime code will be part of next quarter’s Mesa 24.1 release.

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