Documentation/gpu: split up the gpu documentation

Make the gpu documentation easier to manage by splitting to separate
files. Again, this is just the split, no real edits.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/bd2b599b5105c28c8f05923005e6cc9b7efa7fc1.1466506505.git.jani.nikula@intel.com

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+Introduction
+============
+
+The Linux DRM layer contains code intended to support the needs of
+complex graphics devices, usually containing programmable pipelines well
+suited to 3D graphics acceleration. Graphics drivers in the kernel may
+make use of DRM functions to make tasks like memory management,
+interrupt handling and DMA easier, and provide a uniform interface to
+applications.
+
+A note on versions: this guide covers features found in the DRM tree,
+including the TTM memory manager, output configuration and mode setting,
+and the new vblank internals, in addition to all the regular features
+found in current kernels.
+
+[Insert diagram of typical DRM stack here]
+
+Style Guidelines
+----------------
+
+For consistency this documentation uses American English. Abbreviations
+are written as all-uppercase, for example: DRM, KMS, IOCTL, CRTC, and so
+on. To aid in reading, documentations make full use of the markup
+characters kerneldoc provides: @parameter for function parameters,
+@member for structure members, &structure to reference structures and
+function() for functions. These all get automatically hyperlinked if
+kerneldoc for the referenced objects exists. When referencing entries in
+function vtables please use ->vfunc(). Note that kerneldoc does not
+support referencing struct members directly, so please add a reference
+to the vtable struct somewhere in the same paragraph or at least
+section.
+
+Except in special situations (to separate locked from unlocked variants)
+locking requirements for functions aren't documented in the kerneldoc.
+Instead locking should be check at runtime using e.g.
+``WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(...));``. Since it's much easier to ignore
+documentation than runtime noise this provides more value. And on top of
+that runtime checks do need to be updated when the locking rules change,
+increasing the chances that they're correct. Within the documentation
+the locking rules should be explained in the relevant structures: Either
+in the comment for the lock explaining what it protects, or data fields
+need a note about which lock protects them, or both.
+
+Functions which have a non-\ ``void`` return value should have a section
+called "Returns" explaining the expected return values in different
+cases and their meanings. Currently there's no consensus whether that
+section name should be all upper-case or not, and whether it should end
+in a colon or not. Go with the file-local style. Other common section
+names are "Notes" with information for dangerous or tricky corner cases,
+and "FIXME" where the interface could be cleaned up.