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Arcaire on Dec 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux 4.9 is out

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

ramy_d on Dec 12, 2016 [–]

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?

wtallis on Dec 12, 2016 | [–]

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.

ramy_d on Dec 12, 2016 | | [–]

ah ok, thanks for the information.

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