Qualcomm Incorporated

Quanquan Xu

Andrew Evan Gruber

Yun Du

Chun Yu

Chihong Zhang

Thomas Edwin Frisinger

Zilin Ying

Richard Hammerstone

Heng Qi

Sheng Gu

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for graphics processing. For example, disclosed techniques facilitate improving bindless state processing at a graphics processor. Aspects of the present disclosure can receive, at a graphics processor, a shader program including a preamble section and a main instructions section. Aspects of the present disclosure can also execute, with a scalar processor dedicated to processing preamble sections, instructions of the preamble section to implement a bindless mechanism for loading constant data associated with the shader program. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure can distribute the main instructions section and the constant data to a streaming processor for executing the shader program.

Methods and apparatus to facilitate a dedicated bindless state processor

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Quanquan Xu