Hi Guennadi, On Tuesday 27 October 2009 08:49:15 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hi > > This is a general comment to the whole "(contiguous) video buffer" work: > having given a talk at the ELC-E in Grenoble on soc-camera, I mentioned > briefly a few related RFCs, including this one. I've got a couple of > comments back, including the following ones (which is to say, opinions are > not mine and may or may not be relevant, I'm just fulfilling my promise to > pass them on;)): > > 1) has been requested to move this discussion to a generic mailing list > like LKML. > > 2) the reason for (1) was, obviously, to consider making such a buffer > pool also available to other subsystems, of which video / framebuffer > drivers have been mentioned as likely interested parties. Those are good ideas. The global video buffers pool will sooner or later (and my guess is sooner) need to interact with X buffers (either for Xv rendering, or opengl textures). This needs to be discussed globally on the LKML. > (btw, not sure if this has also been mentioned among those wishes - what > about DVB? Can they also use such buffers?) If I'm not mistaken DVB uses read/write syscalls to transfer data from/to the driver. A video buffers pool wouldn't fit well in that scheme. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
