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DRM has been used by Direct Rendering Manager for 15 years or so, so it's itself a commonly used acronym.
by kzrdude 5y ago
DRM has been used by Direct Rendering Manager for 15 years or so, so it's itself a commonly used acronym.
- gm3dmo 5y agoDigital Rights Management (DRM) is what sprang to my mind.
- notreallyserio 5y agoMe too, and KMS is key management system or software. But I'm more in the devops side of the industry.
- chipotle_coyote 5y agoI don't doubt it, but it was still a little frustrating -- as far as I can tell, DRM is never defined in the documentation on kernel.org. (I just doublechecked that by searching for "direct rendering" and nothing like "DRM (Direct Rendering Manager)" comes up.) I could tell from context that this didn't mean "digital rights management," but as someone who is not a GPU developer, I didn't have the context to figure it out. So, I really think they should take a few extra words and put this in either the introduction to the GPU Driver Developer's Guide or the first page in the section entitled "DRM Internals". They do that for KMS!
- btdmaster 5y agoThere used to be some documentation that explicitly mentioned it by name, but it has since been removed: https://archive.ph/20140226185421/https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/README.drm https://archive.ph/20140226185421/https://git.kernel.org/cgi...
- arka2147483647 5y agoNo. If you are not in-the-know of linux trivia, this will be highly arcane to you.
- kzrdude 5y agoIt's not linux trivia - it's information anyone trying to get graphics drivers to work or looking for updates on linux might have come across.