On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:07:44AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote: >> We would have liked to as well, but with the holidays and internal >> review process and people being on vacation, and the kernel merge >> window timing it didn't work out this time. Still as Jerome said, our >> VM setup is tightly coupled with the way our HW works. I'm not sure >> how much code could actually be shared. > > Again to clarify, I'm not so much interesting in sharing code here - I > know it'll be nigh to impossible by having looked through nouveau already > and quickly glossed through your stuff. I see the value is just in having > a minimal set of common idioms that we can use to build cool stuff like > resource management. > > Think of gem, which is actually about next to nothing. There's a the flink > stuff and a common close ioctl and recently also a dummy create unusable > for anythine else than boot spalsh screens. Plus the shmem backing store > which seems to be not so much in favour with embedded chips, i.e doesn't > really count. Ridiculous compared to all the other stuff required to draw > triangles on a gpu, but good enough to make things like dri2 and wayland > possible. > I generally agree here, but I don't think this patch prevents something like that in the future. Also, I think we need to actually use GPU VM for a bit and see how everyone's implementations and plans shake out before we can decide which idioms are common. Alex > Cheers, daniel > -- > Daniel Vetter > Mail: daniel@xxxxxxxx > Mobile: +41 (0)79 365 57 48 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
