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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by hooch on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:11PM (#37217353)
Except DRM in this context is a Direct Rendering Manager [1] which is a slightly different struggle getting pixels onto the screen.

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

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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by ShadowBanThis01 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @05:04AM (#37220244)
Let's take a survey and ask people what "DRM" stands for.

I would bet a decent amount of money that the copyguarding one wins out over the rendering-manager one.

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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by yrro on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @07:36AM (#37221252)
Unless you have a time machine, we can't go back and rename the subsystem.
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