I'm sending in one additional patch for this series that enables Vulkan
on retroarch (#7).
I tested the Vulkan video backend and it works. 

For convenience I've re-sent the other six patches in this mail too. 

On 2017-12-09 14:54, Rutger Helling wrote:

> Hey Guix,
> 
> this patch series adds Vulkan support for mesa on x86_64-linux and adds a few new packages.
> Since a rebuild of mesa is necessary I'm sending it in for core-updates.
> 
> Here's a short explanation of all the patches:
> #1: Add Vulkan support to mesa on x86_64-linux. On i686-linux mesa didn't build unfortunately.
> I haven't tried other architectures.
> #2: Add vulkan.scm to gnu/local.mk.
> #3: Create vulkan.scm and add spirv-headers.
> #4: Add spirv-tools to vulkan.scm.
> #5: Add glslang to vulkan.scm.
> #6: Add vulkan-icd-loader to vulkan.scm.
> This provides the 'vulkaninfo' tool that you can use to query if your system is Vulkan-capable.
> 
> I tested it out after a full rebuild on a Vulkan-capable system.
> 'vulkaninfo' showed Vulkan was available on that system.