On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 09:38 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > 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. How do you know its running in an infinite loop? the firmware comes in blobs from AMD. > > >> 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? Pretty much yes. Dave. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
