Joshua Ashton, the developer working for CodeWeavers who had been working on “DXUP” as a Direct3D 9/10 to D3D11 translation layer so that the output could be fed to DXVK for running on Vulkan is now developing the “D9VK” project…

Source: Phoronix – D9VK Forming As Direct3D 9 Over Vulkan Based On DXVK