Bug 460 - Documenting the Out of Order architecture
Summary: Documenting the Out of Order architecture
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Libre-SOC's first SoC
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Linux
: --- enhancement
Assignee: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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Blocks: 384
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Reported: 2020-08-18 10:06 BST by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Modified: 2021-04-20 14:48 BST (History)
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Description Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 2020-08-18 10:06:30 BST
As an OoO system is particularly difficult to understand we need documentation on the internal architecture.  Two pages in particular:

* https://libre-soc.org/3d_gpu/architecture/6600scoreboard/
* https://libre-soc.org/3d_gpu/architecture/tomasulo_transformation/

The latter page allows people taught through the academic system to understand the equivalence of augmented 6600 to the Tomasulo Algorithm.