[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] swr: update gallium driver docs

Cherniak, Bruce bruce.cherniak at intel.com
Fri Apr 14 15:08:43 UTC 2017


Reviewed-by: Bruce Cherniak <bruce.cherniak at intel.com>

> On Apr 13, 2017, at 1:41 PM, Tim Rowley <timothy.o.rowley at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> ---
> src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr.rst       | 2 +-
> src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr/usage.rst | 9 +++------
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr.rst b/src/gallium/docs/source/drivers/openswr.rst
> index 84aa51f..e254d7b 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 e55b421..d2a664e 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
> ^^^^^^^^
> @@ -22,10 +23,6 @@ On Linux, building will create a drop-in alternative for libGL.so into::
> 
>   lib/gallium/libGL.so
> 
> -or::
> -
> -  build/foo/gallium/targets/libgl-xlib/libGL.so
> -
> To use it set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable accordingly.
> 
> **IMPORTANT:** Mesa will default to using llvmpipe or softpipe as the default software renderer.  To select the OpenSWR driver, set the GALLIUM_DRIVER environment variable appropriately: ::
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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