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<p>The NVIDIA GPU driver package provides a kernel module,
nvidia-drm.ko, which registers a DRM driver with the DRM subsystem
of the Linux kernel. The capabilities advertised by this DRM driver
depend on the Linux kernel version and configuration:</p>
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RandR 1.4. Linux kernel version 3.13 or higher is required, with
CONFIG_DRM enabled.</p>
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<p>Atomic Modeset: This is used for display of non-X11 based
desktop environments, such as Wayland and Mir. Linux kernel version
4.1 or higher is required, with CONFIG_DRM and
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<p>NVIDIA's DRM KMS support is still considered experimental. It is
disabled by default, but can be enabled on suitable kernels with
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<p>Applications can present through NVIDIA's DRM KMS implementation
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<p>The DRM KMS "dumb buffer" mechanism to create and map
CPU-accessible buffers: DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB,
DRM_IOCTL_MODE_MAP_DUMB, and DRM_IOCTL_MODE_DESTROY_DUMB.</p>
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<p>Using the EGL_EXT_device_drm, EGL_EXT_output_drm, and
EGL_EXT_stream_consumer_egloutput EGL extensions to associate
EGLStream producers with specific DRM KMS planes.</p>
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