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A safe interface to the Direct Rendering Manager subsystem found in various operating systems.
Summary
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is subsystem found in various operating systems that exposes graphical functionality to userspace processes. It can be used to send data and commands to a GPU driver that implements the interface.
Userspace processes can access the DRM by opening a ‘device node’ (usually
found in /dev/dri/*) and using various ioctl commands on the open file
descriptor. Most processes use the libdrm library (part of the mesa project)
to execute these commands. This crate takes a more direct approach,
bypassing libdrm and executing the commands directly and doing minimal
abstraction to keep the interface safe.
While the DRM subsystem exposes many powerful GPU interfaces, it is not recommended for rendering or GPGPU operations. There are many standards made for these use cases, and they are far more fitting for those sort of tasks.
Usage
To begin using this crate, the Device trait must be
implemented. See the trait’s example section for
details on how to implement it.
Modules
Memory management and buffer functionality that the DRM subsystem exposes.
Modesetting operations that the DRM subsystem exposes.
Structs
An authentication token, unique to the file descriptor of the device.
Bus ID of a device.
Driver version of a device.
Enums
Used to enable/disable capabilities for the process.
Used to check which capabilities your graphics driver has.
A general system error that can be returned by any DRM command.
Traits
This trait should be implemented by any object that acts as a DRM device. It is a prerequisite for using any DRM functionality.