Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jul 2018 07:53:38 +0200 | From | Gerd Hoffmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6] Add udmabuf misc device |
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:37:57AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 09:53:58AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > A driver to let userspace turn memfd regions into dma-bufs. > > > > Use case: Allows qemu create dmabufs for the vga framebuffer or > > virtio-gpu ressources. Then they can be passed around to display > > those guest things on the host. To spice client for classic full > > framebuffer display, and hopefully some day to wayland server for > > seamless guest window display. > > > > qemu test branch: > > https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu/log/?h=sirius/udmabuf > > > > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> > > Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> > > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> > > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> > > I think some ack for a 2nd use-case, like virtio-wl or whatever would be > really cool. To give us some assurance that this is generically useful.
Tomeu? Laurent?
> Plus an ack from dma-buf folks (nag them on irc, you don't have them on Cc > here).
Hmm, does MAINTAINERS need an update then? Maintainer and mailing lists listed in the "DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" entry are on Cc.
Who should be Cc'ed?
> Then this is imo good to go. > > I assume you'll push it to drm-misc, like all the other dma-buf stuff?
Can do that, sure, after collecting the acks ...
thanks, Gerd
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