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DRM there refers to Direct Rendering Manager[0]. A few days ago the author those changes are listed under (Dave Airlie) was on the HN frontpage for his comment

by Arcaire 10y ago

DRM there refers to Direct Rendering Manager[0]. A few days ago the author those changes are listed under (Dave Airlie) was on the HN frontpage for his comments on an AMD RFC[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136426

ramy_d 10y ago
so when the AMD patch was refused, it was refused for this LTS version of the kernel? that's gotta be a huge blow against AMD, no?
- wtallis 10y ago
  The merge window for 4.9 closed long before this recent spate of publicity. The AMDGPU patch would have been on track for more like 4.11.
  - ramy_d 10y ago
    ah ok, thanks for the information.