[HN Gopher] Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver targeting CSF-based ARM M...
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Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver targeting CSF-based ARM Mali GPUs
Author : mfilion
Score : 38 points
Date : 2025-07-07 19:07 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.collabora.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.collabora.com)
| Aurornis wrote:
| In case anyone is confused, DRM refers to Direct Rendering
| Manager, not Digital Rights Management:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager
| lawlessone wrote:
| Thanks, that's exactly what was confusing me.
| p0w3n3d wrote:
| Yeah that would be not a very proud thing to share
| cjtrowbridge wrote:
| what does this have to do with the viking god of war like its not
| that hard to come up with some relevant name
| zokier wrote:
| The GPUs themselves are named after norse mythology (utgard,
| midgard, bifrost, valhall), the driver names have been related
| to those (panfrost, panthor, and now tyr). And the whole theme
| comes from the fact that the GPUs originate from Norwegian
| company (later acquired by ARM)
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(processor)
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