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Intel Releases 5,000 Pages of Open-Source Haswell Documentation

Posted by samzenpus on from the pages-for-the-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Intel has ended out 2013 by publishing 5,000 pages of new GPU documentation about their latest generation 'Haswell' graphics hardware. The new documentation complements their longstanding open-source Linux graphics driver that has supported Haswell HD / Iris Graphics since last year. The new documentation covers the hardware registers and special information for 3D, video acceleration, performance counters, and GPGPU programming."

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  1. I received them earlier ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... thanks Snowden!

  2. is it complete? by waddgodd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it include APIs for the NSA backdoors?

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    1. Re:is it complete? by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 4, Funny

      what a relief to find that the arguments (of the api calls) only need rot13 applied twice in succession. its not at all cpu-intensive, so that's a relief.

      alarmingly, the result is returned in plaintext. waiting for nsa api v1.1 for the fix to that one.

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