VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT(3)

# VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT - Specify that an image be created with the provided DRM format modifier and explicit memory layout

## C Specification

If the `pNext` chain of VkImageCreateInfo includes a VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT structure, then the image will be created with the Linux DRM format modifier and memory layout defined by the structure.

The VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier
    typedef struct VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT {
        VkStructureType               sType;
        const void*                   pNext;
        uint64_t                      drmFormatModifier;
        uint32_t                      drmFormatModifierPlaneCount;
        const VkSubresourceLayout*    pPlaneLayouts;
    } VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT;

## Members

- `sType` is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

- `pNext` is `NULL` or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

- `drmFormatModifier` is the Linux DRM format modifier with which the image will be created.

- `drmFormatModifierPlaneCount` is the number of memory planes in the image (as reported by VkDrmFormatModifierPropertiesEXT) as well as the length of the `pPlaneLayouts` array.

- `pPlaneLayouts` is a pointer to an array of VkSubresourceLayout structures describing the image’s memory planes.

## Description

The `i`th member of `pPlaneLayouts` describes the layout of the image’s `i`th memory plane (that is, `VK_IMAGE_ASPECT_MEMORY_PLANE_i_BIT_EXT`). In each element of `pPlaneLayouts`, the implementation must ignore `size`. The implementation calculates the size of each plane, which the application can query with vkGetImageSubresourceLayout.

When creating an image with VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT, it is the application’s responsibility to satisfy all valid usage requirements. However, the implementation must validate that the provided `pPlaneLayouts`, when combined with the provided `drmFormatModifier` and other creation parameters in VkImageCreateInfo and its `pNext` chain, produce a valid image. (This validation is necessarily implementation-dependent and outside the scope of Vulkan, and therefore not described by valid usage requirements). If this validation fails, then vkCreateImage returns VK_ERROR_INVALID_DRM_FORMAT_MODIFIER_PLANE_LAYOUT_EXT.

Valid Usage

- VUID-VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT-drmFormatModifier-02264
  `drmFormatModifier` must be compatible with the parameters in VkImageCreateInfo and its `pNext` chain, as determined by querying VkPhysicalDeviceImageFormatInfo2 extended with VkPhysicalDeviceImageDrmFormatModifierInfoEXT

- VUID-VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT-drmFormatModifierPlaneCount-02265
  `drmFormatModifierPlaneCount` must be equal to the VkDrmFormatModifierPropertiesEXT::`drmFormatModifierPlaneCount` associated with VkImageCreateInfo::`format` and `drmFormatModifier`, as found by querying VkDrmFormatModifierPropertiesListEXT

- VUID-VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT-size-02267
  For each element of `pPlaneLayouts`, `size` must be 0

- VUID-VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT-arrayPitch-02268
  For each element of `pPlaneLayouts`, `arrayPitch` must be 0 if VkImageCreateInfo::`arrayLayers` is 1

- VUID-VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT-depthPitch-02269
  For each element of `pPlaneLayouts`, `depthPitch` must be 0 if VkImageCreateInfo::`extent.depth` is 1

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_IMAGE_DRM_FORMAT_MODIFIER_EXPLICIT_CREATE_INFO_EXT

- VUID-VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT-pPlaneLayouts-parameter
  `pPlaneLayouts` must be a valid pointer to an array of `drmFormatModifierPlaneCount` VkSubresourceLayout structures

- VUID-VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT-drmFormatModifierPlaneCount-arraylength
  `drmFormatModifierPlaneCount` must be greater than `0`

Structure Chaining

Extends the structure

  - VkImageCreateInfo

## See Also

VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier, VkStructureType, VkSubresourceLayout

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

## Copyright

Copyright 2014-2026 The Khronos Group Inc.

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