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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 18:49:45 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 18:49:45 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/index.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f8a4f53d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +.. _amdgpu-display-core: + +=================================== +drm/amd/display - Display Core (DC) +=================================== + +AMD display engine is partially shared with other operating systems; for this +reason, our Display Core Driver is divided into two pieces: + +1. **Display Core (DC)** contains the OS-agnostic components. Things like + hardware programming and resource management are handled here. +2. **Display Manager (DM)** contains the OS-dependent components. Hooks to the + amdgpu base driver and DRM are implemented here. + +The display pipe is responsible for "scanning out" a rendered frame from the +GPU memory (also called VRAM, FrameBuffer, etc.) to a display. In other words, +it would: + +1. Read frame information from memory; +2. Perform required transformation; +3. Send pixel data to sink devices. + +If you want to learn more about our driver details, take a look at the below +table of content: + +.. toctree:: + + display-manager.rst + dc-debug.rst + dcn-overview.rst + mpo-overview.rst + dc-glossary.rst |