2011/2/24 Edward Hervey <bilb...@gmail.com>: > What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing at the > kernel level which v4l2,omx,X,GL,vdpau,vaapi,... can use and that > userspace (like GStreamer) can pass around, monitor and know about.
I think the patches sent out from ST-Ericsson's Johan Mossberg to linux-mm for "HWMEM" (hardware memory) deals exactly with buffer passing, pinning of buffers and so on. The CMA (Contigous Memory Allocator) has been slightly modified to fit hand-in-glove with HWMEM, so CMA provides buffers, HWMEM pass them around. Johan, when you re-spin the HWMEM patchset, can you include linaro-dev and linux-media in the CC? I think there is *much* interest in this mechanism, people just don't know from the name what it really does. Maybe it should be called mediamem or something instead... Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
