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authorJosé Fonseca <[email protected]>2009-11-26 11:15:08 +0000
committerJosé Fonseca <[email protected]>2009-11-26 11:16:34 +0000
commitda1c40260d8cb49eacbb6c394198dc37e020e75a (patch)
tree13b2d2f94a93d8e82ffb7eede9916d607f525b69 /src
parent4dcdf3b9c67f1481d46c1decba84c9c55698db4c (diff)
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.
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-rw-r--r--src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README10
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diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README b/src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README
index 478e0139c8e..0c3f00fd58f 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.