Dawn Native

The dawn-native feature enables additional functionality that is supported only when the WebGPU implementation is dawn_native.

Additional functionality:

  • dawn::native::DawnInstanceDescriptor may be chained on wgpu::InstanceDescriptor on instance creation to pass in the platform and additional search paths, set backend validation level, and receive instance level errors.

  • wgpu::DawnWGSLBlocklist may be chained on wgpu::InstanceDescriptor on instance creation to block some WGSL features.

  • wgpu::DawnCacheDeviceDescriptor may be chained on wgpu::DeviceDescriptor on device creation to enable cache options such as isolation keys and pass in load and store functions.

  • Synchronous adapter.CreateDevice(const wgpu::DeviceDescriptor*) may be called.

Notes:

  • Enabling this feature in the wgpu::DeviceDescriptor does nothing, but its presence in the Adapter's set of supported features means that the additional functionality is supported.