[PATCH] drm: add overview diagram for drm stack

Abdulrasaq Lawani abdulrasaqolawani at gmail.com
Sat May 24 17:34:55 UTC 2025


Thanks for the feedback. I have added the fix and sent another version
(v2) of the patch.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250523-drm-doc-updates-v2-0-e517df152cf6@gmail.com/

best regards,
Abdulrasaq


On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net> wrote:
>
> Abdulrasaq Lawani <abdulrasaqolawani at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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.) |
> > ++-----------------------------+
>
> [...]
>
> Please actually build the docs after a change like this and look at the
> results; they will not be what you expect here.  You need to put that
> diagram into a literal block.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon


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