GPU Reshape – shader instrumentation for everyone

https://gpuopen.com/learn/introducing-gpu-reshape-shader-instrumentation-toolset/

by ibobev • 3 years ago

84 13 3 years ago

When I first saw this I thought this was an AMD-only tool, I'm just now realizing that it works on NVIDIA too.

modeless• 3 years ago

Shader debugging is a "potentially" planned addition. API and vendor agnostic shader debugging sounds amazing. Seems a lot more complex than what they have already but it would be super cool!

elabajaba• 3 years ago

Not API agnostic, but pix can debug dx12 shaders, and renderdoc can debug Vulkan shaders (I've used renderdoc debugger's jump to NaN to fix a few broken shader edge cases), and both are vendor agnostic.

pjmlp2• 3 years ago

Additionally Instruments for Metal, and AGI on Android.

flohofwoe2• 3 years ago

And for Metal, Xcode contains an excellent shader debugger (the Metal debugger is probably the only really good part of Xcode).

jspdown• 3 years ago

Instrumentation for everyone but only if you are on Windows. It so sad to see the level of support for Linux in this domain.

josephg2• 3 years ago

The tool is opensource - looks like it’s published under an MIT license.

If Linux support matters to you, maybe you can get involved or fork the project. It supports a remote debugging protocol - so as a first pass you might be able to add Linux support without needing to port the UI.

I agree with you - I wish more tools like this supported Linux. But I also really respect the original author’s effort here. Making a project like this is a lot of work already. They’re under no obligation to support Linux if they don’t use Linux themselves. Letting the community step in to add Linux support is, in my opinion, opensource done right.

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/GPU-Reshape

BizarroLand• 3 years ago

This is the most common response I see online.

Someone says, "It sucks that X doesn't do Y" and invariably someone pops up to say, "Dedicate your life to solving this problem for yourself. I don't know and could not be forced to care if making X do Y is something you are qualified to do or have the skillset for. Here's were you can go to start finding out what world of misery you have created for yourself under my careful guidance."

Making a statement about X not doing Y is not a complaint, it's not a request for others to do work. It's not an order from a disgruntled customer.

It's the people stating a want, that is all. If enough people agree, then the right people might make that a reality, that is all.

Not every critic is necessarily a good filmmaker.

pjmlp2• 3 years ago

Maybe Valve can give an helping hand, when they stop helping Windows developers having to bother with GNU/Linux.

flohofwoe2• 3 years ago

The tool is targeted towards game developers, and those mostly work on Windows. I would expect that the guts of this tool are not easy to port to other operating systems. And besides, if it would be cross-platform and they would have picked Electron for the app scaffolding, people would complain thst it is an Electron tool instead.

shmerl2• 3 years ago

The post literally says:

Linux® support is a planned addition.

So it doesn't sound like they'd deliberately use something hard to be cross platform.

I'm not a fan of C# based UI, but I suppose it's portable.

UPDATE:

Looks like it's using this: https://avaloniaui.net

shmerl2• 3 years ago

It's supposedly planned:

Linux® support is a planned addition.

GPU Reshape – shader instrumentation for everyone

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