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+===============
+AMDGPU Glossary
+===============
+
+Here you can find some generic acronyms used in the amdgpu driver. Notice that
+we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
+'Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/dc-glossary.rst'.
+
+.. glossary::
+
+    active_cu_number
+      The number of CUs that are active on the system.  The number of active
+      CUs may be less than SE * SH * CU depending on the board configuration.
+
+    CP
+      Command Processor
+
+    CPLIB
+      Content Protection Library
+
+    CU
+      Compute Unit
+
+    DFS
+      Digital Frequency Synthesizer
+
+    ECP
+      Enhanced Content Protection
+
+    EOP
+      End Of Pipe/Pipeline
+
+    GART
+      Graphics Address Remapping Table.  This is the name we use for the GPUVM
+      page table used by the GPU kernel driver.  It remaps system resources
+      (memory or MMIO space) into the GPU's address space so the GPU can access
+      them.  The name GART harkens back to the days of AGP when the platform
+      provided an MMU that the GPU could use to get a contiguous view of
+      scattered pages for DMA.  The MMU has since moved on to the GPU, but the
+      name stuck.
+
+    GC
+      Graphics and Compute
+
+    GMC
+      Graphic Memory Controller
+
+    GPUVM
+      GPU Virtual Memory.  This is the GPU's MMU.  The GPU supports multiple
+      virtual address spaces that can be in flight at any given time.  These
+      allow the GPU to remap VRAM and system resources into GPU virtual address
+      spaces for use by the GPU kernel driver and applications using the GPU.
+      These provide memory protection for different applications using the GPU.
+
+    GTT
+      Graphics Translation Tables.  This is a memory pool managed through TTM
+      which provides access to system resources (memory or MMIO space) for
+      use by the GPU. These addresses can be mapped into the "GART" GPUVM page
+      table for use by the kernel driver or into per process GPUVM page tables
+      for application usage.
+
+    IH
+      Interrupt Handler
+
+    HQD
+      Hardware Queue Descriptor
+
+    IB
+      Indirect Buffer
+
+    IP
+        Intellectual Property blocks
+
+    KCQ
+      Kernel Compute Queue
+
+    KGQ
+      Kernel Graphics Queue
+
+    KIQ
+      Kernel Interface Queue
+
+    MEC
+      MicroEngine Compute
+
+    MES
+      MicroEngine Scheduler
+
+    MMHUB
+      Multi-Media HUB
+
+    MQD
+      Memory Queue Descriptor
+
+    PPLib
+      PowerPlay Library - PowerPlay is the power management component.
+
+    PSP
+        Platform Security Processor
+
+    RLC
+      RunList Controller
+
+    SDMA
+      System DMA
+
+    SE
+      Shader Engine
+
+    SH
+      SHader array
+
+    SMU
+      System Management Unit
+
+    SS
+      Spread Spectrum
+
+    VCE
+      Video Compression Engine
+
+    VCN
+      Video Codec Next