Internal source code for the memory-management layer of Intel's i915 graphics driver, which powers integrated GPUs in Intel CPUs from roughly the mid-2000s through the Gen12/Tiger Lake era. It manages GPU buffer objects, virtual address spaces, and command submission rather than driving any hardware on its own.
This is not actually a standalone driver directory; it is the GEM (Graphics Execution Manager) memory-management code that lives inside Intel's i915 DRM graphics driver. It handles buffer objects, allocation, and command submission internals for Intel integrated GPUs, and only makes sense as part of the larger i915 driver.
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Not a driver directory: this is the i915 GEM/internal memory-management subdirectory, a component of the i915 DRM driver rather than a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.