linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 5/7] vfio: Define vfio based dma-buf operations

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Message-ID: <1497608682.30239.3.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:24:42 +0200
From:   Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
To:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Cc:     Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com>,
        Xiaoguang Chen <xiaoguang.chen@...el.com>,
        chris@...is-wilson.co.uk, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com,
        zhiyuan.lv@...el.com, intel-gvt-dev@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        zhi.a.wang@...el.com, kevin.tian@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 5/7] vfio: Define vfio based dma-buf operations

  Hi,

> I'm not sure I agree regarding the vgpu statement, maybe this is not
> dmabuf specific, but what makes it vgpu specific?  We need to
> separate
> our current usage plans from what it's actually describing and I
> don't
> see that it describes anything vgpu specific.

Well, it describes a framebuffer, what non-graphic device would need
that?

cheers,
  Gerd