Mesa (master): swr: update gallium driver docs
Tim Rowley
torowley at kemper.freedesktop.org
Fri Apr 14 20:23:35 UTC 2017
Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: 4dcfa83114df1026c715c2eb8a6168084fd2e5ac
URL: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=4dcfa83114df1026c715c2eb8a6168084fd2e5ac
Author: Tim Rowley <timothy.o.rowley at intel.com>
Date: Thu Apr 13 13:10:18 2017 -0500
swr: update gallium driver docs
v2: add back scons section, mention additional built swr libraries
Reviewed-by: Bruce Cherniak <bruce.cherniak at intel.com>
---
src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr.rst | 2 +-
src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr/usage.rst | 16 +++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr.rst b/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr.rst
index 84aa51f5d8..e254d7bcea 100644
--- a/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr.rst
+++ b/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ geometry heavy workloads there is a considerable speedup over llvmpipe,
which is to be expected as the geometry frontend of llvmpipe is single
threaded.
-This rasterizer is x86 specific and requires AVX or AVX2. The driver
+This rasterizer is x86 specific and requires AVX or above. The driver
fits into the gallium framework, and reuses gallivm for doing the TGSI
to vectorized llvm-IR conversion of the shader kernels.
diff --git a/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr/usage.rst b/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr/usage.rst
index e55b4211a5..61c30c27c4 100644
--- a/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr/usage.rst
+++ b/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr/usage.rst
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ Usage
Requirements
^^^^^^^^^^^^
-* An x86 processor with AVX or AVX2
-* LLVM version 3.6 or later
+* An x86 processor with AVX or above
+* LLVM version 3.9 or later
+* C++14 capable compiler
Building
^^^^^^^^
@@ -18,13 +19,18 @@ configure time, for example: ::
Using
^^^^^
-On Linux, building will create a drop-in alternative for libGL.so into::
+On Linux, building with autotools will create a drop-in alternative
+for libGL.so into::
lib/gallium/libGL.so
+ lib/gallium/libswrAVX.so
+ lib/gallium/libswrAVX2.so
-or::
+Alternatively, building with SCons will produce::
- build/foo/gallium/targets/libgl-xlib/libGL.so
+ build/linux-x86_64/gallium/targets/libgl-xlib/libGL.so
+ build/linux-x86_64/gallium/drivers/swr/libswrAVX.so
+ build/linux-x86_64/gallium/drivers/swr/libswrAVX2.so
To use it set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable accordingly.
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