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

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 5:31 PM Rodrigo Siqueira Jordao
<Rodrigo.Siqueira at amd.com> wrote:
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> On 2022-06-15 10:13, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > 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:
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> >>>>> 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?
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> >>>> FWIW, my go-to reference tables are 1, updated by Alex.
> >>>>
> >>>> Would it make sense to add a "GFX Core" column?
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> >>> That's what the GC column is for.
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> >> 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.
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> > 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.
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> How should I add it? Something like this:
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> GC/GFX:
>   Graphics and Compute/Core

maybe something like

GC:
   Graphics and Compute or Graphics Core.  Refers to the graphics
hardware block on the GPU.

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> Thanks
> Siqueira
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> > Alex
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