Kenneth Graunke
ea681a0d64
Compiling shaders requires several main steps:
1. Generating FS IR from either GLSL IR or Mesa IR
2. Optimizing the IR
3. Register allocation
4. Generating assembly code
This patch splits out step 4 into a separate class named "fs_generator."
There are several reasons for doing so:
1. Future hardware has a different instruction encoding. Splitting
this out will allow us to replace fs_generator (which relies
heavily on the brw_eu_emit.c code and struct brw_instruction) with
a new code generator that writes the new format.
2. It reduces the size of the fs_visitor monolith. (Arguably, a lot
more should be split out, but that's left for "future work.")
3. Separate namespaces allow us to make helper functions for
generating instructions in both classes: ADD() can exist in
fs_visitor and create IR, while ADD() in fs_generator() can
create brw_instructions. (Patches for this upcoming.)
Furthermore, this patch changes the order of operations slightly.
Rather than doing steps 1-4 for SIMD8, then 1-4 for SIMD16, we now:
- Do steps 1-3 for SIMD8, then repeat 1-3 for SIMD16
- Generate final assembly code for both modes together
This is because the frontend work can be done independently, but final
assembly generation needs to pack both into a single program store to
feed the GPU.
Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Reviewed-by: Paul Berry <stereotype441@gmail.com>
File: docs/README.WIN32 Last updated: 23 April 2011 Quick Start ----- ----- Windows drivers are build with SCons. Makefiles or Visual Studio projects are no longer shipped or supported. Run scons osmesa mesagdi to build classic mesa Windows GDI drivers; or 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. 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.