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DRM there refers to Direct Rendering Manager[0].

A few days ago the author those changes are listed under (Dave Airlie) was on the HN frontpage for his comments on an AMD RFC[1].

so when the AMD patch was refused, it was refused for this LTS version of the kernel? that's gotta be a huge blow against AMD, no?

The merge window for 4.9 closed long before this recent spate of publicity. The AMDGPU patch would have been on track for more like 4.11.

ah ok, thanks for the information.