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| author | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2014-01-26 20:19:23 +0100 |
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| committer | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2014-01-26 20:19:23 +0100 |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/released'
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diff --git a/mesalib/docs/README.THREADS b/mesalib/docs/README.THREADS deleted file mode 100644 index fb6e0ff3d..000000000 --- a/mesalib/docs/README.THREADS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ - - -Mesa Threads README -------------------- - -Thread safety was introduced in Mesa 2.6 by John Stone and -Christoph Poliwoda. - -It was redesigned in Mesa 3.3 so that thread safety is -supported by default (on systems which support threads, -that is). There is no measurable penalty on single -threaded applications. - -NOTE that the only _driver_ which is thread safe at this time -is the OS/Mesa driver! - - -At present the mthreads code supports three thread APIS: - 1) POSIX threads (aka pthreads). - 2) Solaris / Unix International threads. - 3) Win32 threads (Win 95/NT). - -Support for other thread libraries can be added src/glthread.[ch] - - -In order to guarantee proper operation, it is -necessary for both Mesa and application code to use the same threads API. -So, if your application uses Sun's thread API, then you should build Mesa -using one of the targets for Sun threads. - -The mtdemos directory contains some example programs which use -multiple threads to render to osmesa rendering context(s). - -Linux users should be aware that there exist many different POSIX -threads packages. The best solution is the linuxthreads package -(http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/) as this package is the -only one that really supports multiprocessor machines (AFAIK). See -http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/README for further -information about the usage of linuxthreads. - -If you are interested in helping with thread safety work in Mesa -join the Mesa developers mailing list and post your proposal. - - -Regards, - John Stone -- j.stone@acm.org johns@cs.umr.edu - Christoph Poliwoda -- poliwoda@volumegraphics.com - - -Version info: - Mesa 2.6 - initial thread support. - Mesa 3.3 - thread support mostly rewritten (Brian Paul) |