Shader Toolchain: HLSL in Vulkan

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Support for HLSL into Vulkan now uses DXC + spirv-opt to front end, legalize, optimize and verify SPIR‑V with prebuilt binaries available. The pipeline performs legalization transforms on structs, function calls and buffer aliases so opaque textures and append structured buffers become driver acceptable. Coverage hits HLSL 5.1 and earlier, 6.0 wave ops and 64 bit integers, 6.2 16 bit types in progress. Reflection is provided via a tiny C++ header library and rapid bug fixes land in days.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:55Shader Toolchain: A Little Bit History
3. 2:20Shader Toolchain: Compiler Internal Flow
4. 4:09Shader Toolchain: Projects
5. 4:22Shader Toolchain: SPIR-V Legalization
6. 6:57SPIR-V Legalization Example 1 (Legal)
7. 7:35SPIR-V Legalization Example 2 (Legal)
8. 7:45Shader Toolchain: Progress & Status
9. 8:37Coverage: HLSL Shader Models
10. 9:39Coverage: HLSL Language Features
11. 11:04Coverage: Vulkan/SPIR-V Features
12. 13:09Coverage: Vulkan/SPIR-V Extensions
13. 13:32Using DXC: Downloads and Docs
14. 14:50Using DXC: Target Environment & Extensions
15. 15:36Target Environment Example
16. 16:10Extension Example
17. 16:54Using DXC: Resource Descriptor Assignment
18. 18:05Descriptor Assignment Example
19. 19:19Using DXC: Resource Memory Layout Supported three wts of layout rules
20. 20:32SPIRV-Reflect