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Re:Let Chris Crawford teach you to program Atari's 8-bit com... by jtokoph on Monday April 25, 2016 @09:10PM (#11568695)
Isn't there a lot of mystery because the GPU companies keep things very secret? It's been my understanding that GPUs are very much black boxes.
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Re:Let Chris Crawford teach you to program Atari's 8-bit com... by TD-Linux on Monday April 25, 2016 @10:22PM (#11568996)
Most popular desktop GPUs have been pretty well reverse engineered (or implemented from documentation) in Mesa, so you really can go and look at the nitty gritty details, and write assembly language if you so like.

The VC4 is also a fun target, because in addition to being supported in mesa, it is documented very well [1] and in a very popular product (the Raspberry Pi).

[1] http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/VideoCoreIV-A...

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Re:Let Chris Crawford teach you to program Atari's 8-bit com... by corysama on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @12:35AM (#11569465)
Here's dump of public knowledge about various GPUs.

http://renderingpipeline.com/graphics-literature/low-level-g...

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