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    drm/lima: driver for ARM Mali4xx GPUs · 4d159f08
    Qiang Yu authored
    - Mali 4xx GPUs have two kinds of processors GP and PP. GP is for
      OpenGL vertex shader processing and PP is for fragment shader
      processing. Each processor has its own MMU so prcessors work in
      virtual address space.
    - There's only one GP but multiple PP (max 4 for mali 400 and 8
      for mali 450) in the same mali 4xx GPU. All PPs are grouped
      togather to handle a single fragment shader task divided by
      FB output tiled pixels. Mali 400 user space driver is
      responsible for assign target tiled pixels to each PP, but mali
      450 has a HW module called DLBU to dynamically balance each
      PP's load.
    - User space driver allocate buffer object and map into GPU
      virtual address space, upload command stream and draw data with
      CPU mmap of the buffer object, then submit task to GP/PP with
      a register frame indicating where is the command stream and misc
      settings.
    - There's no command stream validation/relocation due to each user
      process has its own GPU virtual addres...
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