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> An absence of critical technical documentation has historically slowed
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Vendor Component Description Version OSS or Blob Filesize Vendor Docs Release Date Interfaces / APIs Notes
Microsoft Indirect Display Driver (IDD) Driver [OSS](https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/main/video/IndirectDisplay){.external .text rel="nofollow"} [Indirect Display Driver Overview](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/display/indirect-display-driver-model-overview){.external .text rel="nofollow"} [UMDF](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/wdf/overview-of-the-umdf){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [KMDF](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/){.external .text rel="nofollow"} The Indirect Display Driver (IDD) enables GPUs to render graphics at arbitrary resolutions without a physical display connected on Windows OS systems.
RedHat vfio_pci Driver 6.2-rc1 [OSS](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/vfio/pci){.external .text rel="nofollow"} in-kernel [RedHat](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/5/html/virtualization/chap-virtualization-pci_passthrough){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [kernel.org](https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/vfio.html){.external .text rel="nofollow"} 2022.12.15 [irqfd](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Instruction_Execution){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [ioeventfd](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Instruction_Execution){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [IOCTL](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git/tree/Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Reference VFIO Stub driver used for discrete assignment of IO, and assignment of some SR-IOV-backed vGPU devices into virtual machines. This driver is commonly replaced with a vendor built VFIO interface with differing memory management and/or page pinning mechanisms which are specific to the vGPU software internals.
Mediated Core (mdev.ko) Driver 6.2-rc1 OSS 0.044 MB [kernel.org](https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.html){.external .text rel="nofollow"} 2016.xx.xx [irqfd](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Instruction_Execution){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [ioeventfd](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Instruction_Execution){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [IOCTL](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git/tree/Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [Type 1 IOMMU](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Mediated_DMA_Translations){.external .text rel="nofollow"} The Mediated Core driver provides a common interface for mediated device management that can be used by drivers of different devices. It is an IOMMU/device-agnostic framework for exposing direct device access to user space in a secure, IOMMU-protected environment (based on VFIO).
guest communication daemon Daemon 0.1.0 [OSS](https://){.external .text rel="nofollow"} [](){.external .text rel="nofollow"} 2023.02.08 [Virtio-Serial](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, CLI Handles IO to and from guests and the host using Virtio-Serial to handle multiple different guest modules.
mdev management CLI 1.0 [OSS](https://){.external .text rel="nofollow"} 0.084 MB [](){.external .text rel="nofollow"} 2023.01.06 CLI, [IOCTL](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git/tree/Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [RMAPI](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#RM_API){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [Mediated Core](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Mediated_Core){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Configures the the [nvidia-vgpu-mgr](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#nvidia-vgpu-mgr){.external .text rel="nofollow"} process.
Intel i915 SR-IOV Driver [5.15](https://github.com/intel/linux-intel-lts/tree/5.15/ADL-linux-ER){.external .text rel="nofollow"} OSS in-kernel Intel\'s open source GPU driver for [GuC](index.php/GPU_Firmware.html#GuC){.external .text rel="nofollow"}-equipped graphics accelerators.
[GuC](index.php/GPU_Firmware.html#GuC){.external .text rel="nofollow"} μOS Firmware Blob IOMMU Interrupts, Power Management Interrupts, [GTT](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#GTT_(Graphics_Translation_Table)){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Handles scheduling, and power management.
HuC [GTT](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#GTT_(Graphics_Translation_Table)){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Handles video encoding/decoding.
[Display Virtualization for Windows OS](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#Display_Surface_Virtualization_2){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Driver [791](https://github.com/intel/Display-Virtualization-for-Windows-OS/releases/){.external .text rel="nofollow"} [OSS](https://github.com/intel/Display-Virtualization-for-Windows-OS){.external .text rel="nofollow"} [github.com/intel/Display-Virtualization-for-Windows-OS/blob/main/Readme.txt](https://github.com/intel/Display-Virtualization-for-Windows-OS/blob/main/Readme.txt){.external .text rel="nofollow"} [udmabuf](https://github.com/ikwzm/udmabuf){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [UMDF](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/wdf/overview-of-the-umdf){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [KMDF](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Intel\'s \'Display Virtualization for Windows OS\' provides a virtual pixel surface used for hardware graphics rendering using Microsoft\'s open source \'Indirect Display Driver (IDD)\'. Display virtualization for Windows OS makes use of display memory sharing primitives provided in-driver by the i915 host.
Nvidia [OpenRM](index.php/OpenRM.html "OpenRM") Driver 525.85.12 OSS [github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/main/README.md](https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/main/README.md){.external .text rel="nofollow"} 2023.01.31 Nvidia\'s open source GPU driver for [GSP](index.php/GPU_Firmware.html#GSP){.external .text rel="nofollow"}-equipped graphics accelerators.
[GSP](index.php/GPU_Firmware.html#GSP){.external .text rel="nofollow"} RM (uproc) Firmware Blob 2023.01.31 RPC Embedded firmware based on [LibOS](https://lwn.net/Articles/637658/){.external .text rel="nofollow"} containing the [RM Core](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#RM_Core){.external .text rel="nofollow"}.
Falcon/NvRISC (uproc) FBIF (Frame Buffer Interface) / GMMU Embedded firmware which handles many aspects of the device including configuring the GPU\'s GMMU controller.
nvidia-vgpud Daemon [v15.2](https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/15.0/whats-new-vgpu/index.html){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Blob 0.108 MB [docs.nvidia.com/grid](https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/index.html){.external .text rel="nofollow"} 2023.01.xx CLI, [IOCTL](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git/tree/Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [RMAPI](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#RM_API){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [Mediated Core](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Mediated_Core){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Configures the the [nvidia-vgpu-mgr](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#nvidia-vgpu-mgr){.external .text rel="nofollow"} process.
nvidia-vgpu-mgr 0.132 MB 2023.01.xx [vmiop](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#vmiop){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [IOCTL](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git/tree/Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [RMAPI](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#RM_API){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [vRPC](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#Guest_kernel_(nvidia.ko)){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, pRPC, [Mediated Core](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Mediated_Core){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Handles IO to and from guest RM, host RM, and hardware.
libnvidia-vgpu.so Library 3.1 MB 2023.01.xx [vmiop](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#vmiop){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [RMAPI](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#RM_API){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [Mediated Core](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Mediated_Core){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Handles IO to and from guest RM, host RM, and hardware. Contains circular dependancies with [nvidia-vgpu-mgr](index.php/GPU_Driver_Internals.html#nvidia-vgpu-mgr){.external .text rel="nofollow"}.
nvidia-vgpu-vfio.ko Driver 0.108 MB 2023.01.xx [Type 1 IOMMU](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Mediated_DMA_Translations){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [irqfd, ioeventfd](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Instruction_Execution){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [IOCTL](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git/tree/Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst){.external .text rel="nofollow"}, [Mediated Core](index.php/Virtual_I/O_Internals.html#Mediated_Core){.external .text rel="nofollow"} Handles incremental memory mapping (non-page pinning per the standard vfio-pci driver).
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## [More Information]{#More_Information .mw-headline}
1. [Nvidia RISC-V
Story](https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tue1100_Nvidia_RISCV_Story_V2.pdf){.external
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3. [Intel Graphics Programmer\'s Reference Manuals
(PRM)](https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/hardware-specification-prms){.external
.text rel="nofollow"}
4. [i915: Hardware Contexts (and some bits about
batchbuffers)](https://bwidawsk.net/blog/2013/1/i915-hardware-contexts-and-some-bits-about-batchbuffers/){.external
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5. [i915: The Global GTT Part
1](https://bwidawsk.net/blog/2014/6/the-global-gtt-part-1/){.external
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6. [i915: Aliasing PPGTT Part
2](https://bwidawsk.net/blog/2014/6/aliasing-ppgtt-part-2/){.external
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7. [i915: True PPGTT Part
3](https://bwidawsk.net/blog/2014/7/true-ppgtt-part-3/){.external
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8. [i915: Future PPGTT Part 4 (Dynamic page table allocations, 64 bit
address space, GPU \"mirroring\", and yeah, something about relocs
too)](https://bwidawsk.net/blog/2014/7/future-ppgtt-part-4-dynamic-page-table-allocations-64-bit-address-space-gpu-mirroring-and-yeah-something-about-relocs-too/){.external
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9. [i915: Security of the Intel Graphics Stack - Part 1 -
Introduction](https://igor-blue.github.io/2021/02/10/graphics-part1.html){.external
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10. [i915: Security of the Intel Graphics Stack - Part 2 - FW \<-\>
GuC](https://igor-blue.github.io/2021/02/24/graphics-part2.html){.external
.text rel="nofollow"}
11. [i915: An Introduction to Intel GVT-g (with new
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