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diff --git a/docs/01-orientation/01-purpose-and-scope.md b/docs/01-orientation/01-purpose-and-scope.md index ef4b258..242f470 100644 --- a/docs/01-orientation/01-purpose-and-scope.md +++ b/docs/01-orientation/01-purpose-and-scope.md @@ -131,20 +131,26 @@ document: * **Working today**: the virtual device, the GSP boot handshake, the RPC transport, the resource-manager emulation surface the guest driver needs to - probe and enumerate, guest `nvidia.ko` and `nvidia-smi`, and the full CUDA - driver-API path through context creation, allocation and verified copies - (the driver-API smoke passes). -* **Needs improvement**: engine execution first — the backend is live and - CE-class copies and their releases are forwarded to the physical copy engine - (default off) with a fault relay, but for CUDA kernel execution the guest's - launch now reaches the front-end and the inline launch-descriptor install has - not been observed (context validity at dispatch is ruled out; see - [`../04-implementation/03-execution-frontier.md`](../04-implementation/03-execution-frontier.md)) - — then the remaining reply fidelity (some consumed - fields are still generic fallbacks), the memory/page-table model, Windows - guest support, non-KVM hypervisors, and performance instrumentation. Each of - these is tracked with explicit "known-unknowns" in + probe and enumerate, guest `nvidia.ko` and `nvidia-smi`, the full CUDA + driver-API path, and **CUDA kernel execution on the physical GPU** — + verified guest clients (vector-add, matrix-multiply, transformer) execute on + the engine with engine-authored completions relayed to the guest. On the + graphics side, the X server and GLX run on the emulated vGPU, the engine + executes GL method streams (verbatim 3D replay and synthesized launches), + and the guest Vulkan pipeline runs end to end. +* **Needs improvement**: the staged-transfer class (some large multi-chunk + CUDA clients still mis-verify; failure modes proven), the every-boot + acceptance campaign, per-guest execution isolation for simultaneous guests, + the rendered-pixel frontier for OpenGL/Vulkan (program delivery plus + program-VA mapping), the remaining reply fidelity (some consumed fields are + still generic fallbacks), Windows guest support, non-KVM hypervisors, and + performance instrumentation. Each of these is tracked with explicit + "known-unknowns" in [`../04-implementation/01-known-knowns-and-unknowns.md`](../04-implementation/01-known-knowns-and-unknowns.md); + execution detail: + [`../04-implementation/03-execution-frontier.md`](../04-implementation/03-execution-frontier.md) + and + [`../04-implementation/05-graphics-execution-plan.md`](../04-implementation/05-graphics-execution-plan.md); for the CUDA analysis area, start at [`../../userspace/cuda/READ-ME-FIRST.md`](../../userspace/cuda/READ-ME-FIRST.md). |