Mesaintel Warning Ivy Bridge Vulkan Support Is Incomplete Best -
The developers at Mesa had done heroic work. They had shoehorned a modern API onto a GPU architecture that predated the very concept of Vulkan. The Ivy Bridge’s GPU was a Gen7 part, originally designed for OpenGL 4.2 and the now-defunct Intel GMA. To make it speak Vulkan, the driver writers had created a translation layer that was part miracle, part duct tape, and part desperate hope.
The Mesa team keeps the intel_hasvk driver enabled for two reasons: The developers at Mesa had done heroic work