From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: Information resources Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:38:34 -0500 Message-ID: <4D67BEEA.3020207@cfl.rr.com> References: <4D66B699.7010803@cfl.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.123]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BFE9E75F for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:50:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([10.127.143.53]) by cdptpa-qmta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20110225143936558.PQBS1923@cdptpa-qmta04.mail.rr.com> for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:39:36 +0000 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Jerome Glisse Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On 2/24/2011 6:03 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > We don't have source of firmware, only nouveau is reverse engineering > the nvidia one. Then where does the firmware come from? I've been glancing at the AMD documentation for the R600 and I'd like to figure out why the firmware seems to be running in an infinite loop without ever halting, and driving the temperature of my card over 80 C, but I need the original assembly code for that. >> 2) What is a "fence"? > > It's what it means, it tell the cpu when the gpu reached some point in > command stream or resource usage so we know we can free or move memory > that was previously in use. Or simply to know when gpu is done doing > somethings. So it is kind of like a barrier in the IO world? You put a dozen commands into the pipeline and then a fence, and when they all complete, the fence gives you feedback so you know?