Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM | From | Keith Packard <> | Date | Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:56:49 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 19:32 +0200, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
> Right, but the current code will basically force the discrete card > drivers to implement backing store for all allocations.
Aside from not really forcing discrete card drivers to to anything (they're welcome to use or not use this stuff as they prefer), I believe discrete cards will need backing store to support paging objects to disk and suspend-to-ram operations.
> Do we want > this ? Also, for cards that can handle page-based memory allocations, > there is no way to make use of this feature, do we want this too ?
I don't see how any of the current code directs how future drivers might work; the user-level interface is reasonably abstract and should allow all kinds of internal organizations.
Instead of complaining that the current code might not support some abstract hardware, please build something that does work and we'll see how to merge that with code for other drivers.
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