MSM Driver To Get PRIME & Render Nodes Support

After a year of working on the "Freedreno" Gallium3D user-space driver and getting that up to speed for Qualcomm Adreno/Snapdragon support, for the past few months he's been working on a complementary kernel driver rather than relying upon Qualcomm's Android-focused kernel layer. Rob's MSM DRM driver was merged in Linux 3.12 and coming up for Linux 3.13 it will include a number of new features.
The work that Rob has ready for Linux 3.13 with this Qualcomm DRM graphics driver is DRI PRIME support, support for render nodes, updated header files, plane support, and a couple of other changes.
The pull request getting the new MSM code into the drm-next tree can be found on the dri-devel mailing list. Besides this exciting ARM DRM driver, the Marvell Armada DRM driver should be merged to make for this next kernel cycle to be more exciting on the ARM graphics front.
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