drm/i915: Add microcontrollers documentation section

To better organize the information, add a microcontrollers section and
move/link the GuC, HuC and DMC documentation under it. Also add a small
intro.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAnna Karas <anna.karas@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMartin Peres <martin.peres@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191014183602.3643-1-daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com
parent d4a415dc
...@@ -415,6 +415,15 @@ Object Tiling IOCTLs ...@@ -415,6 +415,15 @@ Object Tiling IOCTLs
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_tiling.c .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_tiling.c
:doc: buffer object tiling :doc: buffer object tiling
Microcontrollers
================
Starting from gen9, three microcontrollers are available on the HW: the
graphics microcontroller (GuC), the HEVC/H.265 microcontroller (HuC) and the
display microcontroller (DMC). The driver is responsible for loading the
firmwares on the microcontrollers; the GuC and HuC firmwares are transferred
to WOPCM using the DMA engine, while the DMC firmware is written through MMIO.
WOPCM WOPCM
----- -----
...@@ -454,6 +463,15 @@ GuC Address Space ...@@ -454,6 +463,15 @@ GuC Address Space
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.c .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.c
:doc: GuC Address Space :doc: GuC Address Space
HuC
---
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_huc_fw.c
:doc: HuC Firmware
DMC
---
See `CSR firmware support for DMC`_
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