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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf
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  Hi,

> >We could also do it the other way around: Instead of having the kernel returning
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> >the plane description userspace could pass it in, and the kernel throws -EINVAL in
>
> >case it doesn't match due to things having changed meanwhile.
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> Or just return a dmabuf based on the current plane ?

If gvt is able to hand out dma-bufs for inactive planes, then yes, we
can do this. Have one ioctl where we pass in the plane id, get back a
plane description struct, and another where we pass in the plane
description struct and get back a dma-buf fd.

cheers,
Gerd

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