From 5ecb4f969403c80e9a5e1e94070ec52f99823909 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Paul <brian.paul@tungstengraphics.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:46:53 -0600
Subject: cell: updated status in docs/cell.html

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 docs/cell.html | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

(limited to 'docs/cell.html')

diff --git a/docs/cell.html b/docs/cell.html
index 34d9a92723..4a9ab14395 100644
--- a/docs/cell.html
+++ b/docs/cell.html
@@ -83,17 +83,17 @@ Similarly, textures are tiled and brought into local store as needed.
 <H2>Status</H2>
 
 <p>
-As of September 2008, the driver supports smooth/flat shaded triangle rendering
-with Z testing and simple texture mapping.
-Simple demos like gears run successfully.
-To test texture mapping, try progs/demos/texcyl (press right mouse button for
-rendering options).
-</p>
-<p>
-Runtime/dynamic code generation is being done for per-fragment
-operations (Z test, blend, etc) and for fragment programs (though only a
-few opcodes are implemented now).
+As of October 2008, the driver runs quite a few OpenGL demos.
+Features that work include:
 </p>
+<ul>
+<li>Point/line/triangle rendering, glDrawPixels
+<li>2D texture maps with nearest/linear/mipmap filtering
+<li>NPOT textures
+<li>Cube maps, to some extent
+<li>Dynamic SPU code generation for fragment shaders, but not complete
+<li>Dynamic SPU code generation for fragment ops (blend, Z-test, etc), but not complete
+</ul>
 <p>
 In general, however, the driver is rather slow because all vertex
 transformation is being done by an interpreter running on the PPU.
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ more of the following debug options:
 <li><b>checker</b> - use a different background clear color for each SPU.
    This lets you see which SPU is rendering which screen tiles.
 <li><b>sync</b> - wait/synchronize after each DMA transfer
+<li><b>asm</b> - print generated SPU assembly code to stdout
+<li><b>fragops</b> - emit fragment ops debug messages
+<li><b>fragopfallback</b> - don't use codegen for fragment ops
+<li><b>cmd</b> - print SPU commands as their received
 </ul>
 
 <p>
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From 02c9009bb842cd8a47bc36ea274ef54ff47e1528 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Paul <brian.paul@tungstengraphics.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:47:17 -0600
Subject: mesa: updated status in cell.html

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 docs/cell.html | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'docs/cell.html')

diff --git a/docs/cell.html b/docs/cell.html
index 4a9ab14395..7fbbba7c7e 100644
--- a/docs/cell.html
+++ b/docs/cell.html
@@ -88,18 +88,18 @@ Features that work include:
 </p>
 <ul>
 <li>Point/line/triangle rendering, glDrawPixels
-<li>2D texture maps with nearest/linear/mipmap filtering
-<li>NPOT textures
-<li>Cube maps, to some extent
+<li>2D, NPOT and cube texture maps with nearest/linear/mipmap filtering
 <li>Dynamic SPU code generation for fragment shaders, but not complete
 <li>Dynamic SPU code generation for fragment ops (blend, Z-test, etc), but not complete
+<li>Dynamic PPU/PPC code generation for vertex shaders, but not complete
 </ul>
 <p>
-In general, however, the driver is rather slow because all vertex
-transformation is being done by an interpreter running on the PPU.
-Programs with many vertices or complex vertex shaders will run especially
-slow.
-This will be addressed in the future.
+Performance has recently improved with the addition of PPC code generation
+for vertex shaders, but the code quality isn't too great yet.
+</p>
+<p>
+Another bottleneck is SwapBuffers.  It may be the limiting factor for
+many simple GL tests.
 </p>
 
 
@@ -118,8 +118,16 @@ more of the following debug options:
 <li><b>fragops</b> - emit fragment ops debug messages
 <li><b>fragopfallback</b> - don't use codegen for fragment ops
 <li><b>cmd</b> - print SPU commands as their received
+<li><b>cache</b> - print texture cache statistics when program exits
 </ul>
+<p>
+Note that some of these options may only work for linux-cell-debug builds.
+</p>
 
+<p>
+If the GALLIUM_NOPPC env var is set, PPC code generation will not be used
+and vertex shaders will be run with the TGSI interpreter.
+</p>
 <p>
 If the GALLIUM_NOCELL env var is set, the softpipe driver will be used
 intead of the Cell driver.
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