[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2] swr: update gallium driver docs

Tim Rowley timothy.o.rowley at intel.com
Fri Apr 14 19:03:12 UTC 2017


v2: add back scons section, mention additional built swr libraries
---
 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 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..61c30c2 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.
 
-- 
2.7.4



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