Mike Emmel wrote:
> Sorry one more a mmaped file could be any file not just a temp one.

Lots of possibilities, but what set is really required?

> On Dec 5, 2007 12:48 PM, Mike Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What about shm.h stuff ?
>>
>> Its also easy enough to support this approach also.
>>
>> So I think the choice are.
>>
>> 1.) External address ( user knows what he is doing)
>> 2.) Tmp file shared mmap
>> 3.) Private anon mmap
>> 4.) shm

That should already be working. It's just that the SHM Surface Pool
does not have the "EXTERNAL" type flag and therefore is not used by
the pool negotiation for layer surfaces.

>> 5.) External allocator ? Esp if we do a surface manager ?

A surface manager would only be useful for acceleration or a real
display layer implementation. Both won't be there, otherwise it
should be another special system module.

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  Denis Oliver Kropp

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