The Metal backend already supports output for the 6 clipping planes via gl_ClipDistances equivalent, however, functionality to toggle clipping plane enablement was missing.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
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Depends on D16777
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16813
To make GPU backends other than OpenGL work. Adds required pixel buffer and
fence objects to GPU module.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Ref T92212
Reviewed By: fclem, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16042
Full support for translation and compilation of shaders in Metal, using
GPUShaderCreateInfo. Includes render pipeline state creation and management,
enabling all standard GPU viewport rendering features in Metal.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White, Marco Giordano
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15563
The memory manager includes both a GPUContext-local manager which allocates per-context resources such as Circular Scratch Buffers for temporary data such as uniform updates and resource staging, and a GPUContext-global memory manager which features a pooled memory allocator for efficient re-use of resources, to reduce CPU-overhead of frequent memory allocations.
These Memory Managers act as a simple interface for use by other Metal backend modules and to coordinate the lifetime of buffers, to ensure that GPU-resident resources are correctly tracked and freed when no longer in use.
Note: This also contains dependent DIFF changes from D15027, though these will be removed once D15027 lands.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
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Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15277
MTLFrameBuffer has been implemented to support creation of RenderCommandEncoders, along with supporting functionality in the Metal Context.
Optimisation stubs for GPU_framebuffer_bind_ext has been added, which enables specific assignment of attachment load-store ops at the bind level, rather than on a framebuffer object as a whole.
Begin and end frame markers are used to encapsulate frame boundaries for explicit workload submission. This is required for explicit APIs where implicit flushing of work does not occur.
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15027
MTLState module implementation and supporting functionality in MTLContext for state tracking, texture binding and sampler state caching.
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14827
