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Re:Linux 4.9 is out by lucb1e on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:21PM (#13154102)
I wonder what "DRM updates" and "DRM fixes" include.
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Re:Linux 4.9 is out by Arcaire on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:26PM (#13154139)
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

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136426

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Re:Linux 4.9 is out by ramy_d on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:25AM (#13155777)
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?
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Re:Linux 4.9 is out by wtallis on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:34AM (#13155822)
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.
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Re:Linux 4.9 is out by ramy_d on Monday December 12, 2016 @09:19AM (#13158135)
ah ok, thanks for the information.
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Re:Linux 4.9 is out by JoshTriplett on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:27PM (#13154147)
DRM in the context of the Linux kernel refers to the Direct Rendering Manager, a graphics component. If you want to see all the merge commits from Dave Airlie (the long descriptions of which include a list of commits), try https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
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Re:Linux 4.9 is out by adamzegelin on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:26PM (#13154145)
Updates to the Direct Rendering Manager, nothing sinister.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager

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Re:Linux 4.9 is out by an_account_name on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:25PM (#13154135)
I think they probably mean "direct rendering manager", rather than "digital rights management." It's used for graphics acceleration.
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Re:Linux 4.9 is out by ddddddddq on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:25PM (#13154127)
In the Linux kernel context, DRM is "Direct Rendering Manager"
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Re:Linux 4.9 is out by erelde on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:26PM (#13154144)
It's not about Digital Rights Management. It's Direct Rendering Manager.
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