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| author | Brian Paul <brian.paul@tungstengraphics.com> | 2000-01-25 17:18:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Brian Paul <brian.paul@tungstengraphics.com> | 2000-01-25 17:18:52 +0000 |
| commit | 0fed6a1bded5940afba8b94e15b6ad72ebb07245 (patch) | |
| tree | f0622d2834c88f0316629ab80b89c7803a9f5675 /docs | |
| parent | d8aec9b55b0180384e96cddff48fc48751bbc320 (diff) | |
added info about assembly language optimizations
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/README.X11 | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/README.X11 b/docs/README.X11 index 7157b703ab..aa9484f505 100644 --- a/docs/README.X11 +++ b/docs/README.X11 @@ -28,6 +28,20 @@ If you have compilation problems you should try to fix them and return the patches to the author. +Notes on assembly language optimizations: + + When using the old-style Makefiles, you can specify a configuration + that uses X86 assembly language optimizations (linux-3dnow for example). + + The detection of MMX, 3DNow!, PIII/SSE, etc capability is done at + runtime. That means you can compile Mesa for 3DNow! optimizations + even if you don't have an AMD CPU. + + However, your Linux binutils and assembler must understand the + special instructions in order to compile them. If you have + compilation problems, try upgrading your binutils. + + Header and library files: After you've compiled Mesa and tried the demos I recommend the following procedure for "installing" Mesa. @@ -301,4 +315,4 @@ Summary of X-related environment variables: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -$Id: README.X11,v 3.3 1999/09/15 16:39:01 brianp Exp $ +$Id: README.X11,v 3.4 2000/01/25 17:18:52 brianp Exp $ |