From: Abdulrasaq Lawani <abdulrasaqolawani@gmail.com>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Abdulrasaq Lawani <abdulrasaqolawani@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] drm: add overview diagram for drm stack
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:52:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250523-drm-doc-updates-v2-1-e517df152cf6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250523-drm-doc-updates-v2-0-e517df152cf6@gmail.com>
Add an overview diagram of Linux DRM architecture for
graphics and compute to introduction.rst
---
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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2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-23 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-23 19:52 [PATCH v2 0/2] drm: add overview diagram for drm stack Abdulrasaq Lawani
2025-05-23 19:52 ` Abdulrasaq Lawani [this message]
2025-05-23 19:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] " Abdulrasaq Lawani
2025-05-26 1:51 ` Bagas Sanjaya
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