[PATCH 1/2] Documentation/gpu: Add entries to amdgpu glossary

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 14:59:09 UTC 2022


Applied the series with minor fix to capitalize the U in Compute Unit.  Thanks!

Alex

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 3:52 PM Tales Lelo da Aparecida
<tales.aparecida at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Add missing acronyms to the amdgppu glossary.
>
> Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1939#note_1309737
> Signed-off-by: Tales Lelo da Aparecida <tales.aparecida at gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst
> index 859dcec6c6f9..48829d097f40 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst
> @@ -8,12 +8,19 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>
>  .. glossary::
>
> +    active_cu_number
> +      The number of CUs that are active on the system.  The number of active
> +      CUs may be less than SE * SH * CU depending on the board configuration.
> +
>      CP
>        Command Processor
>
>      CPLIB
>        Content Protection Library
>
> +    CU
> +      Compute unit
> +
>      DFS
>        Digital Frequency Synthesizer
>
> @@ -74,6 +81,12 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>      SDMA
>        System DMA
>
> +    SE
> +      Shader Engine
> +
> +    SH
> +      SHader array
> +
>      SMU
>        System Management Unit
>
> --
> 2.35.1
>


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