APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING GRAPHICS BUFFERS FOR A PROCESSOR IN SLEEP MODE

• Main Authors: SUTTLES, Jared, S, SWANTEK, Joseph, H, CONNELL, Nathan, M, DHARAWAT, Parikshit, FLOWERS, Christian, L, WANG, Haitang
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 24.11.2021
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

One disclosed method includes registering a graphics buffer with a kernel running on a first processor, storing the registered graphics buffer in memory initially without drawing the graphics buffer to a display, and passing the registered graphics buffer to a kernel display driver directly to draw...