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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2010
Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jesse David Hall, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Patrick R. Brown, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Gernot Schaufler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark D. Stadler, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jesse David Hall, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Patrick R. Brown, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Gernot Schaufler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark D. Stadler, Los Altos, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for configuring a graphics processing pipeline (GPP) to process data according to one or more shader programs. The method includes receiving a plurality of pointers, where each pointer references a different shader program header (SPH) included in a plurality of SPHs, and each SPH is associated with a different shader program that executes within the GPP. For each SPH included in the plurality of SPHs, one or more GPP configuration parameters included in the SPH are identified, and the GPP is adjusted based on the one or more GPP configuration parameters.