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The TCS is the first tessellation shader stage, and the most complicated. It has access to each of the control points in the input patch, and computes a new output patch. There is one logical invocation per output control point; all invocations run in parallel, and can communicate by reading and writing output variables. One of the main responsibilities of the TCS is to write the special gl_TessLevelOuter[] and gl_TessLevelInner[] output variables which control how much new geometry the hardware tessellation engine will produce. Otherwise, it simply writes outputs that are passed along to the TES. We run in SIMD4x2 mode, handling two logical invocations per EU thread. The hardware doesn't properly manage the dispatch mask for us; it always initializes it to 0xFF. We wrap the whole program in an IF..ENDIF block to handle an odd number of invocations, essentially falling back to SIMD4x1 on the last thread. v2: Update comments (requested by Jordan Justen). Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org> Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
File: docs/README.WIN32 Last updated: 21 June 2013 Quick Start ----- ----- Windows drivers are build with SCons. Makefiles or Visual Studio projects are no longer shipped or supported. Run scons libgl-gdi to build gallium based GDI driver. This will work both with MSVS or Mingw. Windows Drivers ------- ------- At this time, only the gallium GDI driver is known to work. Source code also exists in the tree for other drivers in src/mesa/drivers/windows, but the status of this code is unknown. Recipe ------ Building on windows requires several open-source packages. These are steps that work as of this writing. - install python 2.7 - install scons (latest) - install mingw, flex, and bison - install pywin32 from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs get pywin32-218.4.win-amd64-py2.7.exe - install git - download mesa from git see http://www.mesa3d.org/repository.html - run scons General ------- After building, you can copy the above DLL files to a place in your PATH such as $SystemRoot/SYSTEM32. If you don't like putting things in a system directory, place them in the same directory as the executable(s). Be careful about accidentially overwriting files of the same name in the SYSTEM32 directory. The DLL files are built so that the external entry points use the stdcall calling convention. Static LIB files are not built. The LIB files that are built with are the linker import files associated with the DLL files. The si-glu sources are used to build the GLU libs. This was done mainly to get the better tessellator code. If you have a Windows-related build problem or question, please post to the mesa-dev or mesa-users list.