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Why is DRM being implemented in the Kernel; What is the profile for an end-user who wants this in their FOSS?

• lultimouomo 2mo ago
  Different DRM, the one in the kernel is Direct Rendering Manager, which is basically managing access to the GPU.
• dralley 2mo ago
  DRM = Direct Rendering Manager. GPU scheduling.
• telotortium 2mo ago
  Here it doesn’t mean “digital rights management”, but “Direct Rendering Manager”, a component of the kernel’s graphics stack: https://docs.kernel.org/gpu/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://docs.kernel.org/gpu/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
• Lorkki 2mo ago
  This is DRM as in Direct Rendering Manager, which is the kernel interface to GPU hardware; not Digital Rights Management.
  • cogman10 2mo ago
    Named long before Digital Rights Management was a thing (or at least the 3 letter acronym existed for it).
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• Shish2k 2mo ago
  The Direct Rendering Manager is useful for any Linux user who wants to display things on a monitor (unless you're happy with like 640x480 VESA, in which case maybe you don't need it)
• voxic11 2mo ago
  People who want to play video games, or watch videos using hardware decoding, or train machine learning models? DRM here means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager > DRM exposes an API that user-space programs can use to send commands and data to the GPU and perform operations such as configuring the mode setting of the display. > User-space programs can use the DRM API to command the GPU to do hardware-accelerated 3D rendering and video decoding, as well as GPGPU computing.
• proxycon 2mo ago
  its the Direct Rendering Manager, not the other DRM
• sapphyrus 2mo ago
  DRM refers to Direct Rendering Manager in this context.