On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 19:48 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Then, there's the issue of 64-bit, and just mapping everything there, and > the interface to that. I liked the trivial extension to "struct resource" > to have a "cached mapping" pointer. So if we can just make it pass > resources around and get a page that way (and not even need kmap() on > 64-bit architections), that would be good.
I'm not that fan of carrying a mapping with a struct resource because if we do that we should probably also refcount the mapping, and then there is the whole question of mappings with different attributes, etc etc... Cheers, Ben. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
