Re: [PATCH] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up

[John Hubbard]

On 11/24/25 11:54 PM, Christian König wrote:
> On 11/25/25 08:49, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 at 17:45, Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> My question is why exactly is nova separated into nova-core and nova-drm? That doesn't seem to be necessary in the first place.
The idea is that nova-core allows building up a separate software stack for
VFIO, without pulling in any DRM-specific code that a hypervisor (for example)
wouldn't need. That makes for a smaller, more security-auditable set of code
for that case.

thanks,
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John Hubbard