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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, seems like quite a bit of work is needed to do this in rust, but hopefully that will benefit others who need to do the same. I do wonder if all of the efforts to do it in rust will be worth it though.

[–] onlinepersona 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Could someone add the definition of "GSP" to HackTerm? What is it?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's an NVIDIA specific term that is the abbreviation for GPU System Processor. It's a RISC-V core that does all sorts of management tasks on a modern Nvidia card, mostly related to task setup, resource allocation, context switching, adjusting clock speeds, etc.

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 7 months ago

Thank you for clearing that up 👍

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dunno. All I know is it's tied to supporting reclocking on newer Nvidia GPUs. This is something the Nouveau kernel driver already supports, so I guess this is just rewriting in Rust for the sake of rewriting in Rust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

[software] -> [software]-rs

As is Rust tradition.