DRM_PRIME_CAP_IMPORT(9)

🌸 DRM_PRIME_CAP_IMPORT(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this little page is about DRM_PRIME_CAP_IMPORT, and honestly? it's a short one, but it matters. let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

DRM_PRIME_CAP_IMPORT — and that's literally it, no description line, the manpage just drops the name and moves on 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

DRM_PRIME_CAP_IMPORT

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: you're looking at DRM_CAP_PRIME, right? and if this bit is set in there, that means the driver supports importing PRIME buffers via the DRM_IOCTL_PRIME_FD_TO_HANDLE ioctl 👑 that's the whole vibe. driver says "yeah i can do that," bit says "yeah i'm set," everyone's happy.

and here's the glow-up: starting from kernel version 6.6, this bit is always set in DRM_CAP_PRIME ⭐ no cap. it's just always on now. iconic behavior honestly.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

like, go read these too, they're all in the same friend group 💜:

• Kernel file ./tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/drm/drm.h struct
• drm_gem_close(9)
• drm_gem_flink(9)
• drm_gem_open(9)
• drm_gem_change_handle(9)
• DRM_CAP_DUMB_BUFFER(9)
• DRM_CAP_VBLANK_HIGH_CRTC(9)
• DRM_CAP_DUMB_PREFERRED_DEPTH(9)
• DRM_CAP_DUMB_PREFER_SHADOW(9)
• DRM_CAP_PRIME(9)
• DRM_PRIME_CAP_EXPORT(9)
• DRM_CAP_TIMESTAMP_MONOTONIC(9)
• DRM_CAP_ASYNC_PAGE_FLIP(9)
• DRM_CAP_CURSOR_WIDTH(9)
• DRM_CAP_CURSOR_HEIGHT(9)
• DRM_CAP_ADDFB2_MODIFIERS(9)
• DRM_CAP_PAGE_FLIP_TARGET(9)
• DRM_CAP_CRTC_IN_VBLANK_EVENT(9)
• DRM_CAP_SYNCOBJ(9)
• DRM_CAP_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE(9)
• DRM_CAP_ATOMIC_ASYNC_PAGE_FLIP(9)
• DRM_CLIENT_CAP_STEREO_3D(9)
• DRM_CLIENT_CAP_UNIVERSAL_PLANES(9)
• DRM_CLIENT_CAP_ATOMIC(9)
• DRM_CLIENT_CAP_ASPECT_RATIO(9)
• DRM_CLIENT_CAP_WRITEBACK_CONNECTORS(9)
• DRM_CLIENT_CAP_CURSOR_PLANE_HOTSPOT(9)
• DRM_CLIENT_CAP_PLANE_COLOR_PIPELINE(9)
• struct drm_syncobj_eventfd(9)
• DRM_IOCTL_GEM_CLOSE(9)
• DRM_IOCTL_PRIME_HANDLE_TO_FD(9)
• DRM_IOCTL_PRIME_FD_TO_HANDLE(9)
• DRM_IOCTL_MODE_RMFB(9)
• DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB(9)
• DRM_IOCTL_MODE_GETFB2(9)
• DRM_IOCTL_SYNCOBJ_EVENTFD(9)
• DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CLOSEFB(9)
• DRM_IOCTL_SET_CLIENT_NAME(9)
• DRM_IOCTL_GEM_CHANGE_HANDLE(9)
• struct drm_event(9)
• DRM_EVENT_VBLANK(9)
• DRM_EVENT_FLIP_COMPLETE(9)
• DRM_EVENT_CRTC_SEQUENCE(9)

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lowkey that's the whole page bestie, it's giving "short but essential" 💀✨ read the SEE ALSOs tho, iykyk 🌈

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mwah, that's a wrap 🫶 this came from ./tools/perf/trace/beauty/incl... and it's dated October 2026 — signing off, DRM_PRIME_CAP_IMPORT(9) out 💅🎀