{"id":232811,"date":"2026-04-09T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/radv-lands-support-for-vulkans-new-primitive-restart-index-extension\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:20:13","slug":"radv-lands-support-for-vulkans-new-primitive-restart-index-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/radv-lands-support-for-vulkans-new-primitive-restart-index-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"RADV Lands Support For Vulkan’s New Primitive Restart Index Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

RADV Lands Support For Vulkan’s New Primitive Restart Index Extension<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/RADV-Primitive-Restart-Index<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-09 05:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa’s Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” is VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index that was introduced last week.<\/p>\n

VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index allows for setting a custom primitive restart index and designed to help support OpenGL emulation atop the Vulkan API. VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index was developed by Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve’s Linux graphics team. Blumenkrantz notably is one of the lead developers of Mesa’s Zink driver for generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan. The primitive restart index extension was merged as part of Vulkan 1.4.348 at the start of the month.\n<\/p>\n

RADV is now the first Mesa Vulkan driver supporting VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index for helping with future Zink usage.
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Samuel Pitoiset of Valve’s Linux graphics team took care of the implementation. It landed for Mesa 26.1 via this merge.
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Separately and still under review are also primitive restart index implementations for Lavapipe and the Intel ANV driver.
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