# Vulkan Ecosystem Components
-This project provides Khronos official ICD loader and validation layers for Vulkan developers on Windows and Linux.
+This project provides Khronos official Vulkan Tools and Utilities for Windows, Linux, Android, and MacOS.
+
+## CI Build Status
+| Platform | Build Status |
+|:--------:|:------------:|
+| Linux/Android | [](https://travis-ci.org/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Tools) |
+| Windows |[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Khronoswebmaster/vulkan-tools/branch/master) |
-## Introduction
-Vulkan is an Explicit API, enabling direct control over how GPUs actually work. No (or very little) validation
-or error checking is done inside a Vulkan driver. Applications have full control and responsibility. Any errors in
-how Vulkan is used often result in a crash. This project provides standard validation layers that can be enabled
-to ease development by helping developers verify their applications correctly use the Vulkan API.
+## Introduction
-Vulkan supports multiple GPUs and multiple global contexts (VkInstance). The ICD loader is necessary to
-support multiple GPUs and the VkInstance level Vulkan commands. Additionally, the loader manages inserting
-Vulkan layer libraries, including validation layers between the application and the ICD.
+This project provides Vulkan tools and utilities that can assist development by enabling developers to
+verify their applications correct use of the Vulkan API.
The following components are available in this repository:
-- Vulkan header files
-- [*ICD Loader*](loader/)
-- [*Validation Layers*](layers/)
-- Demos and tests for the loader and validation layers
+- [*Mock ICD*](icd/)
+- [*Vkcube and Vkcube++ Demo*](cube/)
+- [*VulkanInfo*](vulkaninfo/)
+- [*Windows Runtime*](windows-runtime-installer/)
+
+## Contact Information
+* [Tobin Ehlis](mailto:tobine@google.com)
+* [Mark Lobodzinski](mailto:mark@lunarg.com)
-## Contributing
+## Information for Developing or Contributing:
-If you intend to contribute, the preferred work flow is for you to develop your contribution
-in a fork of this repo in your GitHub account and then submit a pull request.
-Please see the [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) file in this respository for more details
+Please see the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) file in this repository for more details.
+Please see the [GOVERNANCE.md](GOVERNANCE.md) file in this repository for repository management details.
## How to Build and Run
[BUILD.md](BUILD.md)
-includes directions for building all the components, running the validation tests and running the demo applications.
+Includes directions for building all components as well as running the vkcube demo applications.
-Information on how to enable the various Validation layers is in
-[layers/README.md](layers/README.md).
+## Version Tagging Scheme
-Architecture and interface information for the loader is in
-[loader/LoaderAndLayerInterface.md](loader/LoaderAndLayerInterface.md).
+Updates to the `Vulkan-Tools` repository which correspond to a new Vulkan specification release are tagged using the following format: `v<`_`version`_`>` (e.g., `v1.1.96`).
+
+**Note**: Marked version releases have undergone thorough testing but do not imply the same quality level as SDK tags. SDK tags follow the `sdk-<`_`version`_`>.<`_`patch`_`>` format (e.g., `sdk-1.1.92.0`).
+
+This scheme was adopted following the 1.1.96 Vulkan specification release.
## License
This work is released as open source under a Apache-style license from Khronos including a Khronos copyright.
See COPYRIGHT.txt for a full list of licenses used in this repository.
## Acknowledgements
-While this project has been developed primarily by LunarG, Inc; there are many other
+While this project has been developed primarily by LunarG, Inc., there are many other
companies and individuals making this possible: Valve Corporation, funding
project development; Google providing significant contributions to the validation layers;
Khronos providing oversight and hosting of the project.
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