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-rw-r--r--src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_cpu_detect.c32
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_cpu_detect.c b/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_cpu_detect.c
index 4e71041bc9a..6a59f271a83 100644
--- a/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_cpu_detect.c
+++ b/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_cpu_detect.c
@@ -132,16 +132,32 @@ check_os_altivec_support(void)
if (setjmp(__lv_powerpc_jmpbuf)) {
signal(SIGILL, SIG_DFL);
} else {
- __lv_powerpc_canjump = 1;
+ boolean enable_altivec = TRUE; /* Default: enable if available, and if not overridden */
+#ifdef DEBUG
+ /* Disabling Altivec code generation is not the same as disabling VSX code generation,
+ * which can be done simply by passing -mattr=-vsx to the LLVM compiler; cf.
+ * lp_build_create_jit_compiler_for_module().
+ * If you want to disable Altivec code generation, the best place to do it is here.
+ */
+ char *env_control = getenv("GALLIVM_ALTIVEC"); /* 1=enable (default); 0=disable */
+ if (env_control && env_control[0] == '0') {
+ enable_altivec = FALSE;
+ }
+#endif
+ if (enable_altivec) {
+ __lv_powerpc_canjump = 1;
- __asm __volatile
- ("mtspr 256, %0\n\t"
- "vand %%v0, %%v0, %%v0"
- :
- : "r" (-1));
+ __asm __volatile
+ ("mtspr 256, %0\n\t"
+ "vand %%v0, %%v0, %%v0"
+ :
+ : "r" (-1));
- signal(SIGILL, SIG_DFL);
- util_cpu_caps.has_altivec = 1;
+ signal(SIGILL, SIG_DFL);
+ util_cpu_caps.has_altivec = 1;
+ } else {
+ util_cpu_caps.has_altivec = 0;
+ }
}
#endif /* !PIPE_OS_APPLE */
}