kernel/linux.git/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst, branch v7.1

drm/simple-kms: Deprecate simple-kms helpers

2026-03-25T14:05:22+00:00

Deprecate simple-encoder and simple-display-pipe helpers in favor of regular atomic helpers. Remove the related documentation. Add TODO item for converting the remaining drivers. These helpers have been deprecated for years and many drivers have been updated to not use them. Still there are a few left and we occasionally receive new drivers build upon them. Marking them as deprecated will hopefully resolve these problems. The TODO items should be easy enough for getting new voluteers started on DRM driver development. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Acked-by: David Lechner Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319160110.109610-17-tzimmermann@suse.de

MAINATINERS: update drm maintainer contacts

2024-09-03T18:07:57+00:00

Also fix a few places in gpu docs that are still relevant, and add a bunch of .mailmap entries. Acked-by: Dave Airlie Signed-off-by: Simona Vetter

Documentation/gpu: Reference articles on Linux graphics stack

2024-01-19T15:50:54+00:00

Add two articles on LWN about the Linux graphics stack to DRM's list of external references. The articles document the graphics output as a whole, including the kernel side. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Simon Ser Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240115113908.25897-1-tzimmermann@suse.de

drm/doc: Add sections about tiny drivers and external refs to intro page

2022-04-22T11:56:31+00:00

Learning about the DRM subsystem could be quite overwhelming for newcomers but there are lots of useful talks, slides and articles available that can help to understand the needed concepts and ease the learning curve. There are also simple DRM drivers that can be used as example about how a DRM driver should look like. Add sections to the introduction page, that contains references to these. Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220420072411.15104-1-javierm@redhat.com

drm/doc: Document kapi doc expectations

2019-07-19T13:02:37+00:00

We've had this already for anything new. With my drm_prime.c cleanup I also think documentation for everything already existing is complete, and we can bake this in as a requirements subsystem wide. v2: Improve wording a bit (Laurent), fix typo in commit message (Sam). Acked-by: Emil Velikov Acked-by: Sean Paul Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart Acked-by: Maxime Ripard Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg Acked-by: Jani Nikula Acked-by: Alex Deucher Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Cc: Laurent Pinchart Cc: Jani Nikula Cc: David Airlie Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Maxime Ripard Cc: Sean Paul Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190704145054.5701-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch

drm: Document code of conduct

2017-05-05T01:48:17+00:00

freedesktop.org has adopted a formal&enforced code of conduct: https://www.fooishbar.org/blog/fdo-contributor-covenant/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct/ Besides formalizing things a bit more I don't think this changes anything for us, we've already peer-enforced respectful and constructive interactions since a long time. But it's good to document things properly. v2: Drop confusing note from commit message and clarify the grammer (Chris, Alex and others). Cc: Daniel Stone Cc: Keith Packard Cc: tfheen@err.no Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone Reviewed-by: Sumit Semwal Acked-by: Archit Taneja Reviewed-by: Martin Peres Acked-by: Thierry Reding Acked-by: Jani Nikula Acked-by: Vincent Abriou Acked-by: Neil Armstrong Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst Acked-by: Brian Starkey Acked-by: Rob Clark Reviewed-by: David Herrmann Acked-by: Sean Paul Reviewed-by: Harry Wentland Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt Acked-by: Alex Deucher Acked-by: Gustavo Padovan Acked-by: Michel Dänzer Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart Acked-by: Sumit Semwal Acked-by: Keith Packard Acked-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Acked-by: Adam Jackson Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie

drm/doc: Document feature merge deadlines

2017-03-22T20:36:02+00:00

The discussion pretty much concluded without objections, let's document what we agreed on. Cc'ing linux-doc for the new tag in Documentation/process/index.rst. Acked-by: Dave Airlie Reviewed-by: Sean Paul Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: Sean Paul Cc: Jani Nikula Cc: Alex Deucher Cc: Lukas Wunner Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170321155228.30287-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch

drm/doc: Add TODO list

2017-02-07T19:00:27+00:00

This commit adds a TODO list to the GPU driver developer's guide. The content was taken from the DRMJanitors page on the X.Org wiki: https://www.x.org/wiki/DRMJanitors/ The goal is to track a list of refactorings that would be nice to see merged eventually. Sometimes these would be encountered during patch review on the mailing list, and at other times one can come across these while working in a specific area of code. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding Acked-by: Sean Paul Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170207175113.2793-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com

drm/doc: Update styleguide

2016-12-30T12:35:41+00:00

The new cool is &struct foo (kernel-doc now copes with linebreaks), and structure members should be referenced using &foo.bar. Cc: Jani Nikula Cc: Chris Wilson Reviewed-by: David Herrmann Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1483044517-5770-8-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch

drm/doc: link style-guide to doc-guide

2016-12-29T12:23:36+00:00

Our style guide should only be the delta compared to the overall one. Cc: Chris Wilson Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1483008275-29383-1-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch