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by kzrdude 1522 days ago
DRM has been used by Direct Rendering Manager for 15 years or so, so it's itself a commonly used acronym.
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chipotle_coyote 1522 days ago
I 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!

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btdmaster 1522 days ago
There 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/cgi...
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arka2147483647 1522 days ago
No. If you are not in-the-know of linux trivia, this will be highly arcane to you.
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kzrdude 1521 days ago
It'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.
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gm3dmo 1522 days ago
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is what sprang to my mind.
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notreallyserio 1522 days ago
Me too, and KMS is key management system or software. But I'm more in the devops side of the industry.
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