On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko <andr2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> then TTM might be useful. >>> >>> I was looking into it, but it seems to be an overkill in my case >>> And isn't it that GEM should be used for new drivers, not TTM? >> >> Not really, it's just that (other than amdgpu which uses TTM) all of >> the newer drivers have been unified memory. > > Good to know, thank you >> >> A driver for a new GPU >> that had vram of some sort should still use TTM. > > our virtual GPU support is done on hypervisor level, so no changes to > existing GPU drivers. So, the only thing to care about is that the > buffers our DRM driver provides can be imported and used by that GPU > (there are other issues related to memory, e.g. if real GPU/firware can > see the memory of the guest, but this is another story) jfwiw, it might be useful to have a look at the intel GVT stuff.. they have recently (4.10) added para-virt support to i915 BR, -R _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
