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Date:   Thu, 1 Dec 2022 16:51:03 -0500
From:   Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@....com>
To:     Peter Maucher <bellosilicio@...il.com>, alexander.deucher@....com,
        amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/amdgpu: add GART and GTT to glossary

On 2022-12-01 10:38, Peter Maucher wrote:
> GART and GTT are two abbreviations that should be mentioned in the
> glossary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maucher <bellosilicio@...il.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst | 6 ++++++
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst
> index 326896e9800d..d86bea7926dc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst
> @@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
>       EOP
>         End Of Pipe/Pipeline
>   
> +    GART
> +      Graphics Aperture Table

The "R" stands for "Remapping". I've usually seen this as "Graphics 
Address Remapping Table", but "... Aperture ..." would work too.

Regards,
   Felix


> +
> +    GTT
> +      Graphics Translation Table, mostly synonymous to GART
> +
>       GC
>         Graphics and Compute
>