[PATCH] drm: add overview diagram for drm stack
Abdulrasaq Lawani
abdulrasaqolawani at gmail.com
Thu May 22 22:20:27 UTC 2025
Add an overview diagram of Linux DRM architecture for
graphics and compute to introduction.rst
---
Signed-off-by: Abdulrasaq Lawani <abdulrasaqolawani at gmail.com>
---
Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst
index 3cd0c8860b949408ed570d3f9384edd5f03df002..91bb0efc96d69921a122c5265b1431fa18110a7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst
@@ -14,7 +14,43 @@ including the TTM memory manager, output configuration and mode setting,
and the new vblank internals, in addition to all the regular features
found in current kernels.
-[Insert diagram of typical DRM stack here]
+Overview of the Linux DRM Architecture
+-----------------------------------------------
++-----------------------------+
+| User-space Apps |
+| (Games, Browsers, ML, etc.) |
++-----------------------------+
+ |
+ v
++---------------------------------------+
+| Graphics APIs | Compute APIs |
+| (OpenGL, Vulkan) | (OpenCL, CUDA) |
++---------------------------------------+
+ | |
+ v v
++---------------------+ +-----------------------+
+| User-space Driver | | Compute Runtime |
+| (Mesa, AMD/NVIDIA) | | (OpenCL, CUDA, ROCm) |
++---------------------+ +-----------------------+
+ | |
+ +--------+----------+
+ |
+ v
+ +-----------------------+
+ | libdrm (DRM API) |
+ +-----------------------+
+ |
+ v
++-------------------------------------------+
+| Kernel DRM/KMS Driver (i915, amdgpu, |
+| nouveau, etc.) |
++-------------------------------------------+
+ | |
+ v v
++----------------+ +-------------------+
+| GPU Display HW | | GPU Compute Units |
++----------------+ +-------------------+
+
Style Guidelines
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base-commit: 4d07f5440d7afee27dada528aaf5230e760531cb
change-id: 20250522-drm-doc-updates-3686f6d48122
Best regards,
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Abdulrasaq Lawani <abdulrasaqolawani at gmail.com>
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