ZTE DRM Driver Picking Up New Features For Linux 4.11

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 29 January 2017 at 07:27 AM EST. Add A Comment
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The ZTE DRM driver is set to receive new features for Linux 4.11 after this Direct Rendering Manager driver was added to the Linux 4.10 kernel.

This driver is for the ZTE VOU display controller. The ZTE updates for Linux 4.11 enable HDMI audio support through the SPDIF interface, enables the video layer, and other refinements.

More details on these ZTE DRM changes for Linux 4.11 via dri-devel.
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