Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: da1c40260d8cb49eacbb6c394198dc37e020e75a
URL:    
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=da1c40260d8cb49eacbb6c394198dc37e020e75a

Author: José Fonseca <jfons...@vmware.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 26 11:15:08 2009 +0000

llvmpipe: Update/correct CPU requirements.

There are no hard requirements at the moment.

We don't really emit any sse3 yet. Just some ssse3.

Thanks to Roland for spotting these incorrections.

---

 src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README 
b/src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README
index 478e013..0c3f00f 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README
@@ -51,9 +51,13 @@ Requirements
 
  - Linux
  
- - A x86 or amd64 processor with support for sse2, sse3, and sse4.1 SIMD
-   instructions. This is necessary because we emit several SSE intrinsics for
-   convenience. See /proc/cpuinfo to know what your CPU supports.
+ - A x86 or amd64 processor.  64bit mode is preferred.
+ 
+   Support for sse2 is strongly encouraged.  Support for ssse3, and sse4.1 will
+   yield the most efficient code.  The less features the CPU has the more
+   likely is that you ran into underperforming, buggy, or incomplete code.  
+   
+   See /proc/cpuinfo to know what your CPU supports.
  
  - LLVM 2.5 or greater. LLVM 2.6 is preferred.
  

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