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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

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?

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.

ah ok, thanks for the information.

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....

Updates to the Direct Rendering Manager, nothing sinister.

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

I think they probably mean "direct rendering manager", rather than "digital rights management." It's used for graphics acceleration.

In the Linux kernel context, DRM is "Direct Rendering Manager"

It's not about Digital Rights Management. It's Direct Rendering Manager.

It's these merge commits:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...