On 6/20/05, Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem with the SAREA is that user-mode can request an SAREA > *larger* than the kernel knows about. For example, the user-mode > drivers can add extra fields for the DDX and client-side drivers to > communicate. The kernel doesn't need to know anything about what's in > that memory. It just knows that user mode wants N bytes of shared > space. If region is created in advance, there is no opportunity for > user-mode to specify a size.
The size is still constained by SAREA_MAX right? If so the DRM driver can always allocate an SAREA of that size. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
