[PATCH v3 2/2] Documentation/gpu: Add new entries to amdgpu glossary

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon May 5 14:46:41 UTC 2025


Applied the series with some minor tweaks.

Alex

On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM Rodrigo Siqueira <siqueira at igalia.com> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Siqueira <siqueira at igalia.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst
> index 8e6af7cc76c2..70aceff4bdc6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst
> @@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>      CIK
>        Sea Islands
>
> +    CB
> +      Color Buffer
> +
>      CP
>        Command Processor
>
> @@ -39,6 +42,9 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>      CU
>        Compute Unit
>
> +    DB
> +      Depth Buffer
> +
>      DFS
>        Digital Frequency Synthesizer
>
> @@ -63,6 +69,12 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>      GC
>        Graphics and Compute
>
> +    GDS
> +      Global Data Share
> +
> +    GE
> +      Geometry Engine
> +
>      GMC
>        Graphic Memory Controller
>
> @@ -128,6 +140,9 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>      MQD
>        Memory Queue Descriptor
>
> +    PA
> +      Primitive Assembler / Physical Address
> +
>      PFP
>        Pre-Fetch Parser (Graphics)
>
> @@ -146,6 +161,9 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>        the GFX block. It's involved in GFX power management and SR-IOV, among
>        other things.
>
> +    SC
> +      Scan Converter
> +
>      SDMA
>        System DMA
>
> @@ -164,6 +182,9 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>      SMU/SMC
>        System Management Unit / System Management Controller
>
> +    SPI
> +      Shader Processor Input
> +
>      SRLC
>        Save/Restore List Control
>
> @@ -176,6 +197,9 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>      SS
>        Spread Spectrum
>
> +    SX
> +      Shader Execution / Shader Export
> +
>      TA
>        Trusted Application
>
> @@ -185,6 +209,9 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>      TOC
>        Table of Contents
>
> +    UMSCH
> +      User Mode Scheduler
> +
>      UVD
>        Unified Video Decoder
>
> @@ -202,3 +229,9 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>
>      VPE
>        Video Processing Engine
> +
> +    XCC
> +      Accelerator Core Complex
> +
> +    XCP
> +      Accelerator Core Partition
> --
> 2.47.2
>


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