A8x is the next generation of Adreno GPUs, featuring a significant
hardware design change. A major update to the design is the introduction
of Slice architecture. Slices are sort of mini-GPUs within the GPU which
are more independent in processing Graphics and compute workloads. Also,
in addition to the BV and BR pipe we saw in A7x, CP has more concurrency
with additional pipes.
From a software interface perspective, these changes have a significant
impact on the KMD side. First, the GPU register space has been extensively
reorganized. Second, to avoid a register space explosion caused by the
new slice architecture and additional pipes, many registers are now
virtualized, instead of duplicated as in A7x. KMD must configure an
aperture register with the appropriate slice and pipe ID before accessing
these virtualized registers.
Signed-off-by: Akhil P Oommen <akhilpo@oss.qualcomm.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/689019/
Message-ID: <20251118-kaana-gpu-support-v4-14-86eeb8e93fb6@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>
