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The abrupt merging of Nouveau

The abrupt merging of Nouveau

Posted Dec 16, 2009 23:25 UTC (Wed) by airlied (subscriber, #9104)
In reply to: The abrupt merging of Nouveau by iznogood
Parent article: The abrupt merging of Nouveau

This isn't the shader engine or anything like it, its a simple processor that just copies data from processor registers to VRAM and vice-versa, its like a really simple offload engine.

So its a fairly simple processor and working out its opcodes once you know what its copying and to where wasn't that hard, the simpler opcode were okay, the problem at least with G80 opcodes is the non-trivial ones (I think 2 left) are proving quite hard to figure out.


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The abrupt merging of Nouveau

Posted Dec 16, 2009 23:35 UTC (Wed) by iznogood (subscriber, #51845) [Link]

Man, thanks so much.

Its really enlightening to know this kind of stuff (at least for me). Any
chance to point me at some docs of any kind for GPU internals ?

Thanks in advance

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