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4drm/amd/display - Display Core (DC)
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7AMD display engine is partially shared with other operating systems; for this
8reason, our Display Core Driver is divided into two pieces:
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101. **Display Core (DC)** contains the OS-agnostic components. Things like
11   hardware programming and resource management are handled here.
122. **Display Manager (DM)** contains the OS-dependent components. Hooks to the
13   amdgpu base driver and DRM are implemented here.
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15The display pipe is responsible for "scanning out" a rendered frame from the
16GPU memory (also called VRAM, FrameBuffer, etc.) to a display. In other words,
17it would:
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191. Read frame information from memory;
202. Perform required transformation;
213. Send pixel data to sink devices.
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23If you want to learn more about our driver details, take a look at the below
24table of content:
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26.. toctree::
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28   display-manager.rst
29   dc-debug.rst
30   dcn-overview.rst
31   mpo-overview.rst
32   dc-glossary.rst
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