VulkanCapsViewer
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SaschaWillems
Feature request: a simple CLI only version to generate reports on embedded platforms
It would be very nice to have a simplified CLI version, ideally without any dependencies other than Vulkan, so that it is very easy to compile it for embedded platforms (such as i.MX8) to just generate a report. Would be enough if that report just gets dumped into a file, and uploaded via the regular app. Or something like that.
That's a valid request. The application can already be used to submit reports without invoking the UI, but I guess your main point is that it's currently too hard to compile. If so, I'm using a lot of Qt related stuff, including http and json classes. So I won't probably be able to remove Qt completely, but a UI less version is possible.
Right. It is just, the more easy/convenient it is to cross compile a version for an embedded board, the more people are willing to go through the hassle to do that to submit reports. Not all cross-SDKs will have Qt available.
I have not looked in detail what information a report contains, but I assume it is significantly more than what vulkaninfo -j outputs, right? Or would it be possible to just import that output (generated on the embedded device) into the desktop app somehow? Or this simplified version could potentially be just a shell script that enriches the vulkaninfo output enough to have all the necessary info to generate a report on the desktop... Just throwing out some ideas
For CLI-only version aarch64 linux build also would be useful.
I've tested vulkan compute on Nvidia jetson with ubuntu 18.04 - it works without problems. But I as most jetson users didn't have GUI access to the device, only ssh. Preobuilt or simple-to-build CLI version can allow getting more tegra-based results into database.
+1 for me on this. I'd love to be able to submit reports from our embedded hardware, but building Qt on those will be a serious pain.
A simple CLI version that doesn't depend on Qt would be a real help. I can see that the networking stuff might be trickier without Qt; perhaps if it just dumped a file that could be manually submitted via a webpage (or desktop app as suggested above) you could avoid any networking in that case.
I'm actively looking into this. The command line app will be as light as possible in regards to external dependencies and will not require Qt. See https://github.com/SaschaWillems/VulkanCapsViewerCmdLine
Anyone interested in this please check https://github.com/SaschaWillems/VulkanCapsViewerCmdLine. The tool is now ready to be used. Please check the readme, feedback is appreciated.
Thanks! Unfortunately it has been quite a while since I last worked on a Vulkan-enabled embedded device, so it may take some time before I get to try it again. Oh well. I have compiled and run your new tool on my desktop just to check, seems to work fine.