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The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn’t particularly happy with the pull request. In particular, he’s unhappy with some new “hdrtest” testing code being built as part of full kernel builds and the “turds” it leaves behind and this code “needs to die” at least from the perspective of non-DRM driver developers.

  • x00zEnglish
    217·
    1 year ago

    Helping DRM in my kernel? GETOUTAHERE

    • thenextguy
      73·
      1 year ago

      Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital Rights Management

      • grue
        152·
        1 year ago

        Digital Rights Restrictions Management

        FTFY. Do not allow the enemy to frame the debate.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
          92·
          1 year ago

          That’s not what DRM is in kernel/hardware land

          It stands for display rendering manager and it predates any of the other stuff.

          • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            12·
            1 year ago

            I believe they were insinuating that “DRM” as in “Digital Rights Management” (as the comment they were replying to had spelled out) actually has nothing to do with “rights,” and further that we shouldn’t let companies reframe restrictions to the user as rights of the creator, not that the comment they replied to is wrong about which “DRM” is being referenced in relation to the kernel.

            • grue
              4·
              1 year ago

              Precisely. I was pointing out that the accurate expansion of the acronym (in the context of copyright, not graphics rendering) is the one as explained in https://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm, not the self-serving loaded language pushed by the copyright cartel.

      • CrisEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for the context!