linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCHv2 0/3] dma_buf import support for vgem

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Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 08:41:37 +0100
From:   Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Sean Paul <seanpaul@...omium.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv2 0/3] dma_buf import support for vgem

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 02:12:27PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is v2 of my proposal to add dma_buf import functions for vgem.
> Big changes from v1:
> 
> - A device is required for dma_buf attach to work. The existing vgem driver
> intentionally does not use one as it provides a good way to test the DRM
> framework. This approach instead puts a dummy platform device in the existing
> drm_device->platformdev field and uses that for attaching.
> - Native vgem buffers can still be faulted in a page at a time without
> requiring the entire buffer be resident in memory.
> 
> I'm still marking this as RFC as I haven't had a chance to finish
> a userspace test that can be integrated into igt.

Note, that it will be good to cc:intel-gfx@ so that our CI does run it
over the existing vgem tests.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre