Mesa (master): gallium/docs: Flesh out the distro information.
Corbin Simpson
csimpson at kemper.freedesktop.org
Thu Jun 17 01:59:03 UTC 2010
Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: e7d05f1f0d2b16b316a1a801baba0d237272b094
URL: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e7d05f1f0d2b16b316a1a801baba0d237272b094
Author: Corbin Simpson <MostAwesomeDude at gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jun 16 16:52:52 2010 -0700
gallium/docs: Flesh out the distro information.
I'm not sure I picked the best voice here. I might come back to this
later.
---
src/gallium/docs/source/context.rst | 2 +
src/gallium/docs/source/distro.rst | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/gallium/docs/source/context.rst b/src/gallium/docs/source/context.rst
index 9e3a272..4e35a4c 100644
--- a/src/gallium/docs/source/context.rst
+++ b/src/gallium/docs/source/context.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _context:
+
Context
=======
diff --git a/src/gallium/docs/source/distro.rst b/src/gallium/docs/source/distro.rst
index 100afe3..6ba5a05 100644
--- a/src/gallium/docs/source/distro.rst
+++ b/src/gallium/docs/source/distro.rst
@@ -10,69 +10,100 @@ Drivers
Cell
^^^^
+Simple driver for the IBM Cell architecture. Runs faster than :ref:`softpipe`
+on Cell-based machines.
+
Failover
^^^^^^^^
-Deprecated.
+Broken and deprecated.
Intel i915
^^^^^^^^^^
+Driver for Intel i915 and i945 chipsets.
+
Intel i965
^^^^^^^^^^
-Highly experimental.
+Highly experimental driver for Intel i965 chipsets.
Identity
^^^^^^^^
-Wrapper driver.
+Wrapper driver. The identity driver is a simple skeleton that passes through
+all of its :ref:`Context` and :ref:`Screen` methods to an underlying Context
+and Screen, and as such, it is an excellent starting point for new drivers.
LLVM Softpipe
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-nVidia nv30
-^^^^^^^^^^^
+A version of :ref:`softpipe` that uses the Low-Level Virtual Machine to
+dynamically generate optimized rasterizing pipelines.
-nVidia nv40
+nVidia nvfx
^^^^^^^^^^^
+Driver for the nVidia nv30 and nv40 families of GPUs.
+
nVidia nv50
^^^^^^^^^^^
+Driver for the nVidia nv50 family of GPUs.
+
VMWare SVGA
^^^^^^^^^^^
+Driver for VMWare virtualized guest operating system graphics processing.
+
ATI r300
^^^^^^^^
-Testing-quality.
+Driver for the ATI/AMD r300, r400, and r500 families of GPUs.
+
+.. _softpipe:
Softpipe
^^^^^^^^
-Reference software rasterizer.
+Reference software rasterizer. Slow but accurate.
Trace
^^^^^
-Wrapper driver.
+Wrapper driver. Trace dumps an XML record of the calls made to the
+:ref:`Context` and :ref:`Screen` objects that it wraps.
State Trackers
--------------
+.. _dri:
+
Direct Rendering Infrastructure
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Tracker that implements the client-side DRI protocol, for providing direct
+acceleration services to X11 servers with the DRI extension. Supports DRI1
+and DRI2. Only GL is supported.
+
+.. _egl:
+
EGL
^^^
+Tracker for the Khronos EGL standard, used to set up GL and GLES contexts
+without extra knowledge of the underlying windowing system.
+
GLX
^^^
MesaGL
^^^^^^
+Tracker implementing a GL state machine. Not usable as a standalone tracker;
+Mesa should be built with another state tracker, such as :ref:`DRI` or
+:ref:`EGL`.
+
Python
^^^^^^
@@ -82,9 +113,12 @@ OpenVG
WGL
^^^
-Xorg XFree86 DDX
+Xorg/XFree86 DDX
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Tracker for XFree86 and Xorg X11 servers. Provides device-dependent
+modesetting and acceleration as a DDX driver.
+
Auxiliary
---------
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