[PATCH 1/3] Documentation/gpu: Add info table for ASICs

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 3:47 AM Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 at 20:30, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 2:16 PM Simon Ser contact at emersion.fr wrote:
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> > > On Monday, June 13th, 2022 at 22:01, Rodrigo Siqueira Rodrigo.Siqueira at amd.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > Amdgpu driver is used in an extensive range of devices, and each ASIC
> > > > has some specific configuration. As a result of this variety, sometimes
> > > > it is hard to identify the correct block that might cause the issue.
> > > > This commit expands the amdgpu kernel-doc to alleviate this issue by
> > > > introducing one ASIC table that describes dGPU and another one that
> > > > shares the APU info.
> > >
> > > Nice!
> > >
> > > Are there plans to keep this list up-to-date?
> > >
> > > FWIW, my go-to reference tables are 1, updated by Alex.
> > >
> > > Would it make sense to add a "GFX Core" column?
> >
> > That's what the GC column is for.
>
> Oh! Does this stand for "GFX Core", or for "Graphics and Compute"? The
> glossary documents GC as the latter. If there is a name conflict, maybe
> we can keep using the long name in the table, or document what "GC"
> means in a sentence.

Both?  The hardware block is called GC, but I think different teams
expand it to Graphics Core (as in GCN) or Graphics and Compute.  Same
hardware block either way.  I guess we should include both in the
glossary.

Alex