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Kenneth Graunke c4fd0c9052 i965: Work around mysterious Gen4 GPU hangs with minimal state changes.
Gen4 hardware appears to GPU hang frequently when using Chromium, and
also when running 'glmark2 -b ideas'.  Most of the error states contain
3DPRIMITIVE commands in quick succession, with very few state packets
between them - usually VERTEX_BUFFERS/ELEMENTS and CONSTANT_BUFFER.

I trimmed an apitrace of the glmark2 hang down to two draw calls with a
glUniformMatrix4fv call between the two.  Either draw by itself works
fine, but together, they hang the GPU.  Removing the glUniform call
makes the hangs disappear.  In the hardware state, this translates to
removing the CONSTANT_BUFFER packet between the two 3DPRIMITIVE packets.

Flushing before emitting CONSTANT_BUFFER packets also appears to make
the hangs disappear.  I observed a slowdown in glxgears by doing it all
the time, so I've chosen to only do it when BRW_NEW_BATCH and
BRW_NEW_PSP are unset (i.e. we haven't done a CS_URB_STATE change or
already flushed the whole pipeline).

I'd much rather understand the problem, but at this point, I don't see
how we'd ever be able to track it down further.  We have no real tools,
and the hardware people moved on years ago.  I've analyzed 20+ error
states and read every scrap of documentation I could find.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80568
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85367
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Acked-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: "10.4 10.3" <mesa-stable@lists.freedesktop.org>
2015-01-19 13:13:51 -08:00
bin get-pick-list: Allow for non-whitespace between "CC:" and "mesa-stable" 2013-07-31 15:49:48 -07:00
docs configure: require python mako module 2015-01-12 11:20:28 +01:00
doxygen mesa: remove empty glthread.h file 2014-03-03 13:08:59 -07:00
include egl: Inform the client API when ancillary buffers may become undefined. 2015-01-06 15:40:40 -08:00
m4 configure: require python mako module 2015-01-12 11:20:28 +01:00
scons scons: Generate SSE2 floating-point arithmetic. 2014-11-26 20:25:12 +00:00
src i965: Work around mysterious Gen4 GPU hangs with minimal state changes. 2015-01-19 13:13:51 -08:00
.dir-locals.el dir-locals.el: Set indent-tabs-mode true for makefile-mode 2014-01-29 11:45:49 -08:00
.gitattributes Disable autocrlf for Visual Studio project files. 2008-02-28 12:34:01 +09:00
.gitignore Clean up .gitignore files 2013-01-10 22:01:31 +01:00
Android.common.mk build: unify mesa version by using a VERSION file 2013-07-29 13:39:29 -07:00
Android.mk util: Include in Android builds 2014-10-03 01:25:28 +01:00
autogen.sh build: Fix autogen.sh to allow out-of-tree builds 2012-08-14 10:54:39 -07:00
CleanSpec.mk android: add CleanSpec.mk 2014-08-13 00:46:57 +01:00
common.py scons: Don't restrict MSVC_VERSION values. 2014-05-02 22:04:46 +01:00
configure.ac configure: Add machinery for --enable-shader-cache (and --disable-shader-cache) 2015-01-16 13:47:40 -08:00
install-gallium-links.mk targets/radeonsi/vdpau: convert to static/shared pipe-drivers 2014-06-22 23:06:01 +01:00
install-lib-links.mk mesa: Add clean-local rule to remove .lib links. 2014-12-12 12:11:49 -08:00
Makefile.am mesa: Remove tarballs/checksum rules. 2014-12-17 17:54:33 -08:00
SConstruct scons: Don't use bundled C99 headers for VS 2013. 2014-05-02 22:04:46 +01:00
VERSION mesa: Bump version to 10.5.0-devel. 2014-11-18 02:02:54 +00:00

File: docs/README.WIN32

Last updated: 21 June 2013


Quick Start
----- -----

Windows drivers are build with SCons.  Makefiles or Visual Studio projects are
no longer shipped or supported.

Run

  scons osmesa mesagdi

to build classic mesa Windows GDI drivers; or

  scons libgl-gdi

to build gallium based GDI driver.

This will work both with MSVS or Mingw.


Windows Drivers
------- -------

At this time, only the gallium GDI driver is known to work.

Source code also exists in the tree for other drivers in
src/mesa/drivers/windows, but the status of this code is unknown.

Recipe
------

Building on windows requires several open-source packages. These are
steps that work as of this writing.

- install python 2.7
- install scons (latest)
- install mingw, flex, and bison
- install pywin32 from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs
  get pywin32-218.4.win-amd64-py2.7.exe
- install git
- download mesa from git
  see http://www.mesa3d.org/repository.html
- run scons

General
-------

After building, you can copy the above DLL files to a place in your
PATH such as $SystemRoot/SYSTEM32.  If you don't like putting things
in a system directory, place them in the same directory as the
executable(s).  Be careful about accidentially overwriting files of
the same name in the SYSTEM32 directory.

The DLL files are built so that the external entry points use the
stdcall calling convention.

Static LIB files are not built.  The LIB files that are built with are
the linker import files associated with the DLL files.

The si-glu sources are used to build the GLU libs.  This was done
mainly to get the better tessellator code.

If you have a Windows-related build problem or question, please post
to the mesa-dev or mesa-users list.