Author: pierre
Date: Thu Sep 10 08:35:40 2015
New Revision: 16387
Log:
Add some explanations about LLVM r600 backend to mesa
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/x/installing/mesalib.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/x/installing/mesalib.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/x/installing/mesalib.xml Thu Sep 10 08:11:52 2015 (r16386)
+++ trunk/BOOK/x/installing/mesalib.xml Thu Sep 10 08:35:40 2015 (r16387)
@@ -103,9 +103,10 @@
<para role="recommended">
<xref linkend="elfutils"/> (required for Gallium3D radeonsi driver),
<xref linkend="libvdpau"/> (to build VDPAU drivers),
- <xref linkend="llvm"/> (required for Gallium3D r300 and radeonsi drivers
and also for
- llvmpipe which is intended to be the fastest of the three sw rasterizers,
- see <ulink url="http://www.mesa3d.org/faq.html#part3";></ulink> )
+ <xref linkend="llvm"/> (required for Gallium3D r300, r600 and radeonsi
+ drivers and also for llvmpipe which is intended to be the fastest of the
+ three sw rasterizers, see
+ <ulink url="http://www.mesa3d.org/faq.html#part3"/>)
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
@@ -122,13 +123,13 @@
<note>
<para>
The instructions below assume that <application>elfutils</application>
- and <application>LLVM</application> are installed. You will
- need to modify the instructions if you choose not to install them.
- Please note that <application>elfutils</application> and
- <application>LLVM</application> are <emphasis>required</emphasis>
- for Gallium3D r300 and radeonsi drivers. For an explanation of
+ and <application>LLVM</application> with the r600/amdgpu backend are
+ installed. You will need to modify the instructions if you choose not
+ to install them. Please note that <application>elfutils</application>
+ and <application>LLVM</application> are <emphasis>required</emphasis>
+ for Gallium3D r300, r600 and radeonsi drivers. For an explanation of
Gallium3D please see
- <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D";></ulink>.
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D"/>.
</para>
</note>
@@ -268,9 +269,9 @@
<parameter>--with-gallium-drivers="..."</parameter>: This parameter
controls which Gallium3D drivers should be built. Available drivers
are: i915, ilo, nouveau, r300, r600, radeonsi, svga and swrast. You
- will need to remove r300 and radeonsi from the list if you did
+ will need to remove r300, r600 and radeonsi from the list if you did
not install <application>elfutils</application> and
- <application>LLVM</application>.
+ <application>LLVM</application> with the r600/amdgpu backend.
</para>
<para>
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