[PATCH] drm: drop README.drm, ancient scrolls

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 18:48:30 PST 2014


On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>
> This stuff is ancient, we have docs now in the kernel,
> lets just drop it.
>
> Pointed out by Glenn
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/README.drm | 43 -------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 43 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/README.drm
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/README.drm b/drivers/gpu/drm/README.drm
> deleted file mode 100644
> index b5b3327..0000000
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/README.drm
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
> -************************************************************
> -* For the very latest on DRI development, please see:      *
> -*     http://dri.freedesktop.org/                          *
> -************************************************************
> -
> -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
> --
> 1.9.3
>
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