AMDGPU Glossary¶
Here you can find some generic acronyms used in the amdgpu driver. Notice that we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at ‘DC Glossary’.
- CP
Command Processor
- CPLIB
Content Protection Library
- DFS
Digital Frequency Synthesizer
- ECP
Enhanced Content Protection
- EOP
End Of Pipe/Pipeline
- GC
Graphics and Compute
- GMC
Graphic Memory Controller
- IH
Interrupt Handler
- HQD
Hardware Queue Descriptor
- IB
Indirect Buffer
- IP
Intellectual Property blocks
- KCQ
Kernel Compute Queue
- KGQ
Kernel Graphics Queue
- KIQ
Kernel Interface Queue
- MEC
MicroEngine Compute
- MES
MicroEngine Scheduler
- MMHUB
Multi-Media HUB
- MQD
Memory Queue Descriptor
- PPLib
PowerPlay Library - PowerPlay is the power management component.
- PSP
Platform Security Processor
- RCL
RunList Controller
- SDMA
System DMA
- SMU
System Management Unit
- SS
Spread Spectrum
- VCE
Video Compression Engine
- VCN
Video Codec Next