Linus Torvalds e285c1746a Merge branch 'drm-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
  drm/vblank: update recently added vbl interface to be more future proof.
  drm radeon: Return -EINVAL on wrong pm sysfs access
  drm/radeon/kms: fix hardcoded EDID handling
  Revert "drm/i915: Don't save/restore hardware status page address register"
  drm/i915: Avoid unmapping pages from a NULL address space
  drm/i915: Fix use after free within tracepoint
  drm/i915: Restore missing command flush before interrupt on BLT ring
  drm/i915: Disable pagefaults along execbuffer relocation fast path
  drm/i915: Fix computation of pitch for dumb bo creator
  drm/i915: report correct render clock frequencies on SNB
  drm/i915/dp: Correct the order of deletion for ghost eDP devices
  drm/i915: Fix tiling corruption from pipelined fencing
  drm/i915: Re-enable self-refresh
  drm/i915: Prevent racy removal of request from client list
  drm/i915: skip redundant operations whilst enabling pipes and planes
  drm/i915: Remove surplus POSTING_READs before wait_for_vblank
  drm/radeon/kms: prefer legacy pll algo for tv-out
  drm: check for modesetting on modeset ioctls
  drm/kernel: vblank wait on crtc > 1
  drm: Fix use-after-free in drm_gem_vm_close()
2011-03-24 17:27:20 -07:00
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2011-03-21 09:25:54 +10:00

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* For the very latest on DRI development, please see:      *
*     http://dri.freedesktop.org/                          *
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The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level
device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI).

The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major
ways:

    1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via
       the use of an optimized two-tiered lock.

    2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics
       hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to
       restricted regions of memory.

    3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple
       queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context
       switch.

    4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules
       that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module.


Documentation on the DRI is available from:
    http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/

For specific information about kernel-level support, see:

    The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering
    Infrastructure
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html

    Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html

    A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html