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   <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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 <h1>Introduction</h1>

 <p>
 The Gallium llvmpipe driver is a software rasterizer that uses LLVM to
 do runtime code generation.
 Shaders, point/line/triangle rasterization and vertex processing are
 implemented with LLVM IR which is translated to x86 or x86-64 machine
 code.
 Also, the driver is multithreaded to take advantage of multiple CPU cores
 (up to 8 at this time).
 It's the fastest software rasterizer for Mesa.
 </p>


 <h1>Requirements</h1>

 <ul>
 <li>
    <p>An x86 or amd64 processor; 64-bit mode recommended.</p>
    <p>
    Support for SSE2 is strongly encouraged.  Support for SSSE3 and SSE4.1 will
    yield the most efficient code.  The fewer features the CPU has the more
    likely is that you run into underperforming, buggy, or incomplete code.
    </p>
    <p>
    See /proc/cpuinfo to know what your CPU supports.
    </p>
 </li>
 <li>
    <p>LLVM: version 3.4 recommended; 3.3 or later required.</p>
    <p>
    For Linux, on a recent Debian based distribution do:
    </p>
 <pre>
      aptitude install llvm-dev
 </pre>
    <p>
    For a RPM-based distribution do:
    </p>
 <pre>
      yum install llvm-devel
 </pre>

    <p>
    For Windows you will need to build LLVM from source with MSVC or MINGW
    (either natively or through cross compilers) and CMake, and set the LLVM
    environment variable to the directory you installed it to.

    LLVM will be statically linked, so when building on MSVC it needs to be
    built with a matching CRT as Mesa, and you'll need to pass
    <code>-DLLVM_USE_CRT_xxx=yyy</code> as described below.
    </p>

    <table border="1">
      <tr>
        <th rowspan="2">LLVM build-type</th>
        <th colspan="2" align="center">Mesa build-type</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th>debug,checked</th>
        <th>release,profile</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th>Debug</th>
        <td><code>-DLLVM_USE_CRT_DEBUG=MTd</code></td>
        <td><code>-DLLVM_USE_CRT_DEBUG=MT</code></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th>Release</th>
        <td><code>-DLLVM_USE_CRT_RELEASE=MTd</code></td>
        <td><code>-DLLVM_USE_CRT_RELEASE=MT</code></td>
      </tr>
    </table>

    <p>
    You can build only the x86 target by passing -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=X86
    to cmake.
    </p>
 </li>

 <li>
    <p>scons (optional)</p>
 </li>
 </ul>


 <h1>Building</h1>

 To build everything on Linux invoke scons as:

 <pre>
   scons build=debug libgl-xlib
 </pre>

 Alternatively, you can build it with GNU make, if you prefer, by invoking it as

 <pre>
   make linux-llvm
 </pre>

 but the rest of these instructions assume that scons is used.

 For Windows the procedure is similar except the target:

 <pre>
   scons platform=windows build=debug libgl-gdi
 </pre>


 <h1>Using</h1>

 <h2>Linux</h2>

 <p>On Linux, building will create a drop-in alternative for libGL.so into</p>

 <pre>
   build/foo/gallium/targets/libgl-xlib/libGL.so
 </pre>
 or
 <pre>
   lib/gallium/libGL.so
 </pre>

 <p>To use it set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable accordingly.</p>

 <p>For performance evaluation pass build=release to scons, and use the corresponding
 lib directory without the "-debug" suffix.</p>


 <h2>Windows</h2>

 <p>
 On Windows, building will create
 <code>build/windows-x86-debug/gallium/targets/libgl-gdi/opengl32.dll</code>
 which is a drop-in alternative for system's <code>opengl32.dll</code>.  To use
 it put it in the same directory as your application.  It can also be used by
 replacing the native ICD driver, but it's quite an advanced usage, so if you
 need to ask, don't even try it.
 </p>

 <p>
 There is however an easy way to replace the OpenGL software renderer that comes
 with Microsoft Windows 7 (or later) with llvmpipe (that is, on systems without
 any OpenGL drivers):
 </p>

 <ul>
   <li><p>copy build/windows-x86-debug/gallium/targets/libgl-gdi/opengl32.dll to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mesadrv.dll</p></li>
   <li><p>load this registry settings:</p>
   <pre>REGEDIT4

 ; http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749368.aspx
 ; http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143241-portable-windows-7-build-from-winpe-30/page-5#entry942596
 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\OpenGLDrivers\MSOGL]
 "DLL"="mesadrv.dll"
 "DriverVersion"=dword:00000001
 "Flags"=dword:00000001
 "Version"=dword:00000002
 </pre>
   </li>
   <li>Ditto for 64 bits drivers if you need them.</li>
 </ul>


 <h1>Profiling</h1>

 <p>
 To profile llvmpipe you should build as
 </p>
 <pre>
   scons build=profile &lt;same-as-before&gt;
 </pre>

 <p>
 This will ensure that frame pointers are used both in C and JIT functions, and
 that no tail call optimizations are done by gcc.
 </p>

 <h2>Linux perf integration</h2>

 <p>
 On Linux, it is possible to have symbol resolution of JIT code with <a href="http://perf.wiki.kernel.org/">Linux perf</a>:
 </p>

 <pre>
 	perf record -g /my/application
 	perf report
 </pre>

 <p>
 When run inside Linux perf, llvmpipe will create a /tmp/perf-XXXXX.map file with
 symbol address table.  It also dumps assembly code to /tmp/perf-XXXXX.map.asm,
 which can be used by the bin/perf-annotate-jit script to produce disassembly of
 the generated code annotated with the samples.
 </p>

 <p>You can obtain a call graph via
 <a href="http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/Gprof2Dot#linux_perf">Gprof2Dot</a>.</p>


 <h1>Unit testing</h1>

 <p>
 Building will also create several unit tests in
 build/linux-???-debug/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe:
 </p>

 <ul>
 <li> lp_test_blend: blending
 <li> lp_test_conv: SIMD vector conversion
 <li> lp_test_format: pixel unpacking/packing
 </ul>

 <p>
 Some of this tests can output results and benchmarks to a tab-separated-file
 for posterior analysis, e.g.:
 </p>
 <pre>
   build/linux-x86_64-debug/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/lp_test_blend -o blend.tsv
 </pre>


 <h1>Development Notes</h1>

 <ul>
 <li>
   When looking to this code by the first time start in lp_state_fs.c, and
   then skim through the lp_bld_* functions called in there, and the comments
   at the top of the lp_bld_*.c functions.
 </li>
 <li>
   The driver-independent parts of the LLVM / Gallium code are found in
   src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/.  The filenames and function prefixes
   need to be renamed from "lp_bld_" to something else though.
 </li>
 <li>
   We use LLVM-C bindings for now. They are not documented, but follow the C++
   interfaces very closely, and appear to be complete enough for code
   generation. See
   <a href="http://npcontemplation.blogspot.com/2008/06/secret-of-llvm-c-bindings.html">
   this stand-alone example</a>.  See the llvm-c/Core.h file for reference.
 </li>
 </ul>

 <h1 id="recommended_reading">Recommended Reading</h1>

 <ul>
   <li>
     <p>Rasterization</p>
     <ul>
       <li><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~olano/papers/2dh-tri/">Triangle Scan Conversion using 2D Homogeneous Coordinates</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/rasterization-on-larrabee/217200602">Rasterization on Larrabee</a> (<a href="http://devmaster.net/posts/2887/rasterization-on-larrabee">DevMaster copy</a>)</li>
       <li><a href="http://devmaster.net/posts/6133/rasterization-using-half-space-functions">Rasterization using half-space functions</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://devmaster.net/posts/6145/advanced-rasterization">Advanced Rasterization</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/optimizing-sw-occlusion-culling-index/">Optimizing Software Occlusion Culling</a></li>
     </ul>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Texture sampling</p>
     <ul>
       <li><a href="http://chrishecker.com/Miscellaneous_Technical_Articles#Perspective_Texture_Mapping">Perspective Texture Mapping</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Texturing_As_In_Unreal.shtml">Texturing As In Unreal</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3301/runtime_mipmap_filtering.php">Run-Time MIP-Map Filtering</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://alt.3dcenter.org/artikel/2003/10-26_a_english.php">Will "brilinear" filtering persist?</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/gffx/nv40-rx800-3.html">Trilinear filtering</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://devmaster.net/posts/12785/texture-swizzling">Texture Swizzling</a></li>
     </ul>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>SIMD</p>
     <ul>
       <li><a href="http://www.cdl.uni-saarland.de/projects/wfv/#header4">Whole-Function Vectorization</a></li>
     </ul>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Optimization</p>
     <ul>
       <li><a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/optimizing-pixomatic-for-modern-x86-proc/184405807">Optimizing Pixomatic For Modern x86 Processors</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-optimization-manual.html">Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://www.agner.org/optimize/">Software optimization resources</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-intrinsics-guide">Intel Intrinsics Guide</a><li>
     </ul>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>LLVM</p>
     <ul>
       <li><a href="http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html">LLVM Language Reference Manual</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://npcontemplation.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/secret-of-llvm-c-bindings.html">The secret of LLVM C bindings</a></li>
     </ul>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>General</p>
     <ul>
       <li><a href="http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline-2011-index/">A trip through the Graphics Pipeline</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg615082.aspx#architecture">WARP Architecture and Performance</a></li>
     </ul>
   </li>
 </ul>

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	<div class="header">
	<h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
	</div>

	<iframe src="contents.html"></iframe>
	<div class="content">

	<h1>Introduction</h1>

	<p>
	The Gallium llvmpipe driver is a software rasterizer that uses LLVM to
	do runtime code generation.
	Shaders, point/line/triangle rasterization and vertex processing are
	implemented with LLVM IR which is translated to x86 or x86-64 machine
	code.
	Also, the driver is multithreaded to take advantage of multiple CPU cores
	(up to 8 at this time).
	It's the fastest software rasterizer for Mesa.
	</p>


	<h1>Requirements</h1>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>An x86 or amd64 processor; 64-bit mode recommended.</p>
	<p>
	Support for SSE2 is strongly encouraged. Support for SSSE3 and SSE4.1 will
	yield the most efficient code. The fewer features the CPU has the more
	likely is that you run into underperforming, buggy, or incomplete code.
	</p>
	<p>
	See /proc/cpuinfo to know what your CPU supports.
	</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>LLVM: version 3.4 recommended; 3.3 or later required.</p>
	<p>
	For Linux, on a recent Debian based distribution do:
	</p>
	<pre>
	aptitude install llvm-dev
	</pre>
	<p>
	For a RPM-based distribution do:
	</p>
	<pre>
	yum install llvm-devel
	</pre>

	<p>
	For Windows you will need to build LLVM from source with MSVC or MINGW
	(either natively or through cross compilers) and CMake, and set the LLVM
	environment variable to the directory you installed it to.

	LLVM will be statically linked, so when building on MSVC it needs to be
	built with a matching CRT as Mesa, and you'll need to pass
	<code>-DLLVM_USE_CRT_xxx=yyy</code> as described below.
	</p>

	<table border="1">
	<tr>
	<th rowspan="2">LLVM build-type</th>
	<th colspan="2" align="center">Mesa build-type</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<th>debug,checked</th>
	<th>release,profile</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<th>Debug</th>
	<td><code>-DLLVM_USE_CRT_DEBUG=MTd</code></td>
	<td><code>-DLLVM_USE_CRT_DEBUG=MT</code></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<th>Release</th>
	<td><code>-DLLVM_USE_CRT_RELEASE=MTd</code></td>
	<td><code>-DLLVM_USE_CRT_RELEASE=MT</code></td>
	</tr>
	</table>

	<p>
	You can build only the x86 target by passing -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=X86
	to cmake.
	</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p>scons (optional)</p>
	</li>
	</ul>


	<h1>Building</h1>

	To build everything on Linux invoke scons as:

	<pre>
	scons build=debug libgl-xlib
	</pre>

	Alternatively, you can build it with GNU make, if you prefer, by invoking it as

	<pre>
	make linux-llvm
	</pre>

	but the rest of these instructions assume that scons is used.

	For Windows the procedure is similar except the target:

	<pre>
	scons platform=windows build=debug libgl-gdi
	</pre>


	<h1>Using</h1>

	<h2>Linux</h2>

	<p>On Linux, building will create a drop-in alternative for libGL.so into</p>

	<pre>
	build/foo/gallium/targets/libgl-xlib/libGL.so
	</pre>
	or
	<pre>
	lib/gallium/libGL.so
	</pre>

	<p>To use it set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable accordingly.</p>

	<p>For performance evaluation pass build=release to scons, and use the corresponding
	lib directory without the "-debug" suffix.</p>


	<h2>Windows</h2>

	<p>
	On Windows, building will create
	<code>build/windows-x86-debug/gallium/targets/libgl-gdi/opengl32.dll</code>
	which is a drop-in alternative for system's <code>opengl32.dll</code>. To use
	it put it in the same directory as your application. It can also be used by
	replacing the native ICD driver, but it's quite an advanced usage, so if you
	need to ask, don't even try it.
	</p>

	<p>
	There is however an easy way to replace the OpenGL software renderer that comes
	with Microsoft Windows 7 (or later) with llvmpipe (that is, on systems without
	any OpenGL drivers):
	</p>

	<ul>
	<li><p>copy build/windows-x86-debug/gallium/targets/libgl-gdi/opengl32.dll to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mesadrv.dll</p></li>
	<li><p>load this registry settings:</p>
	<pre>REGEDIT4

	; http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749368.aspx
	; http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143241-portable-windows-7-build-from-winpe-30/page-5#entry942596
	[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\OpenGLDrivers\MSOGL]
	"DLL"="mesadrv.dll"
	"DriverVersion"=dword:00000001
	"Flags"=dword:00000001
	"Version"=dword:00000002
	</pre>
	</li>
	<li>Ditto for 64 bits drivers if you need them.</li>
	</ul>


	<h1>Profiling</h1>

	<p>
	To profile llvmpipe you should build as
	</p>
	<pre>
	scons build=profile <same-as-before>
	</pre>

	<p>
	This will ensure that frame pointers are used both in C and JIT functions, and
	that no tail call optimizations are done by gcc.
	</p>

	<h2>Linux perf integration</h2>

	<p>
	On Linux, it is possible to have symbol resolution of JIT code with <a href="http://perf.wiki.kernel.org/">Linux perf</a>:
	</p>

	<pre>
	perf record -g /my/application
	perf report
	</pre>

	<p>
	When run inside Linux perf, llvmpipe will create a /tmp/perf-XXXXX.map file with
	symbol address table. It also dumps assembly code to /tmp/perf-XXXXX.map.asm,
	which can be used by the bin/perf-annotate-jit script to produce disassembly of
	the generated code annotated with the samples.
	</p>

	<p>You can obtain a call graph via
	<a href="http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/Gprof2Dot#linux_perf">Gprof2Dot</a>.</p>


	<h1>Unit testing</h1>

	<p>
	Building will also create several unit tests in
	build/linux-???-debug/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe:
	</p>

	<ul>
	<li> lp_test_blend: blending
	<li> lp_test_conv: SIMD vector conversion
	<li> lp_test_format: pixel unpacking/packing
	</ul>

	<p>
	Some of this tests can output results and benchmarks to a tab-separated-file
	for posterior analysis, e.g.:
	</p>
	<pre>
	build/linux-x86_64-debug/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/lp_test_blend -o blend.tsv
	</pre>


	<h1>Development Notes</h1>

	<ul>
	<li>
	When looking to this code by the first time start in lp_state_fs.c, and
	then skim through the lp_bld_* functions called in there, and the comments
	at the top of the lp_bld_*.c functions.
	</li>
	<li>
	The driver-independent parts of the LLVM / Gallium code are found in
	src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/. The filenames and function prefixes
	need to be renamed from "lp_bld_" to something else though.
	</li>
	<li>
	We use LLVM-C bindings for now. They are not documented, but follow the C++
	interfaces very closely, and appear to be complete enough for code
	generation. See
	<a href="http://npcontemplation.blogspot.com/2008/06/secret-of-llvm-c-bindings.html">
	this stand-alone example</a>. See the llvm-c/Core.h file for reference.
	</li>
	</ul>

	<h1 id="recommended_reading">Recommended Reading</h1>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Rasterization</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~olano/papers/2dh-tri/">Triangle Scan Conversion using 2D Homogeneous Coordinates</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/rasterization-on-larrabee/217200602">Rasterization on Larrabee</a> (<a href="http://devmaster.net/posts/2887/rasterization-on-larrabee">DevMaster copy</a>)</li>
	<li><a href="http://devmaster.net/posts/6133/rasterization-using-half-space-functions">Rasterization using half-space functions</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://devmaster.net/posts/6145/advanced-rasterization">Advanced Rasterization</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/optimizing-sw-occlusion-culling-index/">Optimizing Software Occlusion Culling</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Texture sampling</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://chrishecker.com/Miscellaneous_Technical_Articles#Perspective_Texture_Mapping">Perspective Texture Mapping</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Texturing_As_In_Unreal.shtml">Texturing As In Unreal</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3301/runtime_mipmap_filtering.php">Run-Time MIP-Map Filtering</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://alt.3dcenter.org/artikel/2003/10-26_a_english.php">Will "brilinear" filtering persist?</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/gffx/nv40-rx800-3.html">Trilinear filtering</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://devmaster.net/posts/12785/texture-swizzling">Texture Swizzling</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>SIMD</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.cdl.uni-saarland.de/projects/wfv/#header4">Whole-Function Vectorization</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Optimization</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/optimizing-pixomatic-for-modern-x86-proc/184405807">Optimizing Pixomatic For Modern x86 Processors</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-optimization-manual.html">Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.agner.org/optimize/">Software optimization resources</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-intrinsics-guide">Intel Intrinsics Guide</a><li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>LLVM</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html">LLVM Language Reference Manual</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://npcontemplation.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/secret-of-llvm-c-bindings.html">The secret of LLVM C bindings</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>General</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline-2011-index/">A trip through the Graphics Pipeline</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg615082.aspx#architecture">WARP Architecture and Performance</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	</ul>

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