Re: Abstracting buffer sharing mechanism from the drm drivers

2012-11-27 Thread Aaron Plattner
On 11/16/2012 01:14 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:05:40PM -0800, Aaron Plattner wrote: At the suggestion of a few drm developers, I'm looking at abstracting the buffer sharing mechanism away from the individual drm drivers and treating it as a low-level interface that kerne

Abstracting buffer sharing mechanism from the drm drivers

2012-11-27 Thread Aaron Plattner
On 11/16/2012 01:14 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:05:40PM -0800, Aaron Plattner wrote: >> At the suggestion of a few drm developers, I'm looking at abstracting the >> buffer >> sharing mechanism away from the individual drm drivers and treating it as a >> low-level interfac

Abstracting buffer sharing mechanism from the drm drivers

2012-11-16 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:05:40PM -0800, Aaron Plattner wrote: > At the suggestion of a few drm developers, I'm looking at abstracting the > buffer > sharing mechanism away from the individual drm drivers and treating it as a > low-level interface that kernel subsystems use to communicate, rather

Re: Abstracting buffer sharing mechanism from the drm drivers

2012-11-16 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:05:40PM -0800, Aaron Plattner wrote: > At the suggestion of a few drm developers, I'm looking at abstracting the > buffer > sharing mechanism away from the individual drm drivers and treating it as a > low-level interface that kernel subsystems use to communicate, rather

Abstracting buffer sharing mechanism from the drm drivers

2012-11-16 Thread Aaron Plattner
At the suggestion of a few drm developers, I'm looking at abstracting the buffer sharing mechanism away from the individual drm drivers and treating it as a low-level interface that kernel subsystems use to communicate, rather than as something drivers should be accessing directly. This would also

Abstracting buffer sharing mechanism from the drm drivers

2012-11-16 Thread Aaron Plattner
At the suggestion of a few drm developers, I'm looking at abstracting the buffer sharing mechanism away from the individual drm drivers and treating it as a low-level interface that kernel subsystems use to communicate, rather than as something drivers should be accessing directly. This would also