Re: [RFC PATCHv2 0/3] dma_buf import support for vgem

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 02:12:27PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is v2 of my proposal to add dma_buf import functions for vgem.
> Big changes from v1:
> 
> - A device is required for dma_buf attach to work. The existing vgem driver
> intentionally does not use one as it provides a good way to test the DRM
> framework. This approach instead puts a dummy platform device in the existing
> drm_device->platformdev field and uses that for attaching.
> - Native vgem buffers can still be faulted in a page at a time without
> requiring the entire buffer be resident in memory.
> 
> I'm still marking this as RFC as I haven't had a chance to finish
> a userspace test that can be integrated into igt.

Note, that it will be good to cc:intel-gfx@ so that our CI does run it
over the existing vgem tests.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre