A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING PROGRAMMABLE SOFTWARE CONTEXT STATE EXECUTION DURING HARDWARE CONTEXT RESTORE FLOW

• Main Authors: NALLURI HEMA CHAND, NAVALE ADITYA, SAPTARSHI LALIT K, RAMADOSS MURALI, BOLES JEFFERY S
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 13.05.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

A method and apparatus for supporting programmable software context state execution during hardware context restore flow are described. In one example, a context ID is assigned to graphics applications including a unique context memory buffer, a unique indirect context pointer, a corresponding size...