Intel Sends in a Final Batch Of DRM Feature Updates Targeting Linux 4.19 (phoronix.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: After several big feature pull requests of new "i915" Intel DRM driver features landing in DRM-Next for Linux 4.19, the Intel open-source developers have sent in what they believe to be their last batch of feature changes for queuing this next kernel cycle. Feature activity has dwindled compared to the earlier pull requests, but this latest gathering of patches does include Intel GVT vGPU huge-page support for guests, continued Panel Self Refresh (PSR) fixes/clean-ups, GMBUS improvements for HDCP v2.2 compliance, GEM memory management improvements, and other display code improvements.

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Re: Good DRM, not bad DRM

[Anonymous Coward]

False.

This is real Digital Rights Management that it baked into the CPUs under the guise of some other bullshit with the same acronym to confuse people.

The CPU will now scan everything that flows through it for potential copyright violations and Intel will report them directly to all the authorities, collecting a finders fee in process. They just needed to get the Linux folks on board, with systemd being a successful phase-1 complete, they are now moving to phase-2.

You know this is the truth, you know it.