Internal helper code inside AMD's Display Core that programs the DCE 11 display engine — the mid-2010s display hardware found in Carrizo/Stoney APUs and early Polaris GPUs — handling the step-by-step sequencing of pipes, encoders, and timing during mode changes. It is one piece of the amdgpu driver, not a driver in its own right.
This is not actually a standalone driver; it is an internal subcomponent of AMD's Display Core (DC) inside the amdgpu graphics driver. Specifically, it holds the hardware-sequencer code for DCE 11, the display block used in Carrizo, Stoney, and early Polaris-era APUs and GPUs, and only makes sense as part of the larger amdgpu build.
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Not a driver directory: contains AMD display-core DCE11 hardware-sequencer support code under dc/hwss, an internal helper subcomponent rather than a standalone kernel-bound driver.