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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2000
Stephen J. Orr, Markham, CA;
ATI International, SRL, Barbados, KN;
Abstract
In accordance with a specific implementation of the present invention, the control portion of a graphics processor receives a command having both a data portion and a data duration portion. When the data duration portion indicates the data is transient data for short-term use, the control portion stores the data associated with the data portion at the first memory partition. When the data duration portion indicates the data is persistent data for long-term use, the control portion stores the data associated with the data portion at a second memory partition. In a multiple processor system, transient data may be stored only in a memory partition associated with a first processor, while persistent data may be stored in multiple memory partitions, one for each graphics processor.