Changeset e83a3bb

Timestamp:

09/10/2015 03:35:40 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

57e8690b

Parents:

a14f8e11

Message:

Add some explanations about LLVM r600 backend to mesa

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@16387 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• x/installing/mesalib.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

x/installing/mesalib.xml

@@ -104 +104 @@
       <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>
 
@@ -123 +124 @@
       <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>
@@ -269 +270 @@
       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>