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    amdgpu-dcn-overview.rst
    amdgpu-dm.rst
    amdgpu-dc-debug.rst
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+   dc-glossary.rst
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+===========
+DC Glossary
+===========
+
+.. glossary::
+
+    ABM
+      Adaptive Backlight Modulation
+
+    APU
+      Accelerated Processing Unit
+
+    ASIC
+      Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
+
+    ASSR
+      Alternate Scrambler Seed Reset
+
+    AZ
+      Azalia (HD audio DMA engine)
+
+    BPC
+      Bits Per Colour/Component
+
+    BPP
+      Bits Per Pixel
+
+    Clocks
+      * PCLK: Pixel Clock
+      * SYMCLK: Symbol Clock
+      * SOCCLK: GPU Engine Clock
+      * DISPCLK: Display Clock
+      * DPPCLK: DPP Clock
+      * DCFCLK: Display Controller Fabric Clock
+      * REFCLK: Real Time Reference Clock
+      * PPLL: Pixel PLL
+      * FCLK: Fabric Clock
+      * MCLK: Memory Clock
+      * CPLIB: Content Protection Library
+
+    CRC
+      Cyclic Redundancy Check
+
+    CRTC
+      Cathode Ray Tube Controller - commonly called "Controller" - Generates
+      raw stream of pixels, clocked at pixel clock
+
+    CVT
+      Coordinated Video Timings
+
+    DAL
+      Display Abstraction layer
+
+    DC (Software)
+      Display Core
+
+    DC (Hardware)
+      Display Controller
+
+    DCC
+      Delta Colour Compression
+
+    DCE
+      Display Controller Engine
+
+    DCHUB
+      Display Controller Hub
+
+    ARB
+      Arbiter
+
+    VTG
+      Vertical Timing Generator
+
+    DCN
+      Display Core Next
+
+    DCCG
+      Display Clock Generator block
+
+    DDC
+      Display Data Channel
+
+    DFS
+      Digital Frequency Synthesizer
+
+    DIO
+      Display IO
+
+    DPP
+      Display Pipes and Planes
+
+    DSC
+      Display Stream Compression (Reduce the amount of bits to represent pixel
+      count while at the same pixel clock)
+
+    dGPU
+      discrete GPU
+
+    DMIF
+      Display Memory Interface
+
+    DML
+      Display Mode Library
+
+    DMCU
+      Display Micro Controller Unit
+
+    DMCUB
+      Display Micro-Controller Unit, version B
+
+    DPCD
+      DisplayPort Configuration Data
+
+    DPM(S)
+      Display Power Management (Signaling)
+
+    DRR
+      Dynamic Refresh Rate
+
+    DWB
+      Display writeback
+
+    ECP
+      Enhanced Content Protection
+
+    FB
+      Frame Buffer
+
+    FBC
+      Frame Buffer Compression
+
+    FEC
+      Forward Error Correction
+
+    FRL
+      Fixed Rate Link
+
+    GCO
+      Graphical Controller Object
+
+    GMC
+      Graphic Memory Controller
+
+    GSL
+      Global Swap Lock
+
+    iGPU
+      integrated GPU
+
+    IH
+      Interrupt Handler
+
+    ISR
+      Interrupt Service Request
+
+    ISV
+      Independent Software Vendor
+
+    KMD
+      Kernel Mode Driver
+
+    LB
+      Line Buffer
+
+    LFC
+      Low Framerate Compensation
+
+    LTTPR
+      Link Training Tunable Phy Repeater
+
+    LUT
+      Lookup Table
+
+    MALL
+      Memory Access at Last Level
+
+    MC
+      Memory Controller
+
+    MPC
+      Multiple pipes and plane combine
+
+    MPO
+      Multi Plane Overlay
+
+    MST
+      Multi Stream Transport
+
+    NBP State
+      Northbridge Power State
+
+    NBIO
+      North Bridge Input/Output
+
+    ODM
+      Output Data Mapping
+
+    OPM
+      Output Protection Manager
+
+    OPP
+      Output Plane Processor
+
+    OPTC
+      Output Pipe Timing Combiner
+
+    OTG
+      Output Timing Generator
+
+    PCON
+      Power Controller
+
+    PGFSM
+      Power Gate Finite State Machine
+
+    PPLib
+      PowerPlay Library
+
+    PSR
+      Panel Self Refresh
+
+    SCL
+      Scaler
+
+    SDP
+      Scalable Data Port
+
+    SMU
+      System Management Unit
+
+    SLS
+      Single Large Surface
+
+    SST
+      Single Stream Transport
+
+    TMDS
+      Transition-Minimized Differential Signaling
+
+    TMZ
+      Trusted Memory Zone
+
+    TTU
+      Time to Underflow
+
+    VRR
+      Variable Refresh Rate
+
+    UVD
+      Unified Video Decoder
+
+    VCE
+      Video Compression Engine
+
+    VCN
+      Video Codec Next
