Re: Linux 3.4-rc1

[Subash Patel]

On 04/02/2012 02:11 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:40:39PM +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Rob Clark<rob.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Linus Torvalds
> > > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > >   - drm dma-buf prime support. Dave Airlie sent me the pull request but
> > > > didn't push very hard for it, it's in my "ok, I can still pull it for
> > > > 3.4 if individual DRM driver people tell me that it will make their
> > > > lives easier." So this is in limbo - I have nothing against it, but I
> > > > won't pull unless I get a few people say "yes, please".
> > >
> > > yes, please :-)
> > >
> > > Note that the core drm dma-buf/prime support has already been reviewed
> > > by a lot of folks, and tested with a few different drivers (exynos,
> > > omapdrm, i915, nouveau, udl) with some driver support that could be
> > > pushed for 3.5 cycle if the core support makes it in for 3.4 cycle.
> > Yes, Please.
> >
> > It's used for exynos display and multimedia.
>
> Thirded.
>
> There are a lot of loose pieces to juggle until we have everything in
> place for buffer sharing (and quite a few of this involve contentious
> topics). But this core piece for integrating dma-buf with drm here has
> been acked/reviewd by all the relevant people and merging it would imo
> greatly help in wiring up all the other loose ends.
>
> Cheers, Daniel

(yes, please) ++

I have been using the dma-buf with dma-mapping(Marek's patches) on 
origen(exynos4210), and basic things are good. I wish this gets into 
kernel along with the dma-mapping support asap.

Regards,
Subash
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