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Isn't there a lot of mystery because the GPU companies keep things very secret? It's been my understanding that GPUs are very much black boxes.
by jtokoph 11y ago
Isn't there a lot of mystery because the GPU companies keep things very secret? It's been my understanding that GPUs are very much black boxes.
- TD-Linux 11y agoMost popular desktop GPUs have been pretty well reverse engineered (or implemented from documentation) in Mesa, so you really can go and look at the nitty gritty details, and write assembly language if you so like. The VC4 is also a fun target, because in addition to being supported in mesa, it is documented very well [1] and in a very popular product (the Raspberry Pi). [1] http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/VideoCoreIV-AG100-R.pdf http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/VideoCoreIV-A...
- corysama 11y agoHere's dump of public knowledge about various GPUs. http://renderingpipeline.com/graphics-literature/low-level-gpu-documentation/ http://renderingpipeline.com/graphics-literature/low-level-g...