These weeks in WebGPU/Dawn (12)

[Corentin Wallez]

Corentin Wallez	7:15 PM (0 minutes ago)
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Here's what happened the last four weeks (2019-03-12 to 2019-04-06)

Standardization front:

• Next WebGPU F2F will be hosted by Google in the Bay area May 15th and 16th
• Dean put up an initial bikeshed version of the spec in #248
• The group agreed we should allow vertex-shader only pipelines #240
• Myles opened a pull request to add defaults values to the API in #241 which is almost ready to land
• Many other small changes to the IDL

Coding front for Dawn and WebGPU in Chromium:

• Dawn
• Jiawei implemented multisampling on all backends
• Shaobo added support for all WebGPU vertex formats
• Dawn should now be able to run with no errors under the Metal debug device
• Brandon implemented texture-to-texture copies
• Yunchao descriptorized input state which was the last builder
• Natasha implement and fixed buffer and texture .destroy()
• dawn_wire now supports injecting textures
• Chromium
• Kai, Austin and Corentin implemented all of WebGPU in a prototype branch
• Kai ported and stub TF.js backend to use WebGPU
• Austin landed a skeleton of the WebGPU IDL in Chromium
• Austin produced many WebGPU samples 
• Corentin added SyncToken support to the WebGPU command decder.

Infra front:

• Austin and Ken are adding use_dawn=true coverage via the new chromium.dawn waterfall.