Disable VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_BLEND_BIT for
VK_FORMAT_E5B9G9R9_UFLOAT_PACK32 on macOS Apple Silicon.
On Apple Silicon (iOS/tvOs/macOS M1), format VK_FORMAT_E5B9G9R9_UFLOAT_PACK32
is fully supported as a color attachment except that format components cannot
be individually write-enabled. All components must either be write-enabled or
write-disabled together. This is causing several hundred Vulkan CTS blending
tests to fail on M1. The least intrusive behavioural change to allow the CTS
tests to report Not Supported instead, is to disable blending for this format.
diff --git a/Docs/Whats_New.md b/Docs/Whats_New.md
index 6a1c749..ed29646 100644
--- a/Docs/Whats_New.md
+++ b/Docs/Whats_New.md
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
- Fix incorrect translation of clear color values on Apple Silicon.
- Fix swizzle of depth and stencil values into RGBA (`float4`) variable in shaders.
+- Disable `VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_BLEND_BIT` for
+ `VK_FORMAT_E5B9G9R9_UFLOAT_PACK32` on macOS Apple Silicon.
diff --git a/MoltenVK/MoltenVK/GPUObjects/MVKPixelFormats.mm b/MoltenVK/MoltenVK/GPUObjects/MVKPixelFormats.mm
index c40a156..fb305ba 100644
--- a/MoltenVK/MoltenVK/GPUObjects/MVKPixelFormats.mm
+++ b/MoltenVK/MoltenVK/GPUObjects/MVKPixelFormats.mm
@@ -1546,7 +1546,10 @@
addGPUOSMTLPixFmtCaps( Apple5, 10.16, RGBA8Unorm_sRGB, All );
addGPUOSMTLPixFmtCaps( Apple5, 10.16, BGRA8Unorm_sRGB, All );
+ // Blending is actually supported for this format, but format channels cannot be individually write-enabled during blending.
+ // Disabling blending is the least-intrusive way to handle this in a Vulkan-friendly way.
addGPUOSMTLPixFmtCaps( Apple5, 10.16, RGB9E5Float, All );
+ disableMTLPixFmtCaps ( RGB9E5Float, Blend);
addGPUOSMTLPixFmtCaps( Apple5, 10.16, PVRTC_RGBA_2BPP, RF );
addGPUOSMTLPixFmtCaps( Apple5, 10.16, PVRTC_RGBA_2BPP_sRGB, RF );
