On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:37:57AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 09:53:58AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > A driver to let userspace turn memfd regions into dma-bufs. > > > > Use case: Allows qemu create dmabufs for the vga framebuffer or > > virtio-gpu ressources. Then they can be passed around to display > > those guest things on the host. To spice client for classic full > > framebuffer display, and hopefully some day to wayland server for > > seamless guest window display. > > > > qemu test branch: > > https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu/log/?h=sirius/udmabuf > > > > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I think some ack for a 2nd use-case, like virtio-wl or whatever would be > really cool. To give us some assurance that this is generically useful. Tomeu? Laurent? > Plus an ack from dma-buf folks (nag them on irc, you don't have them on Cc > here). Hmm, does MAINTAINERS need an update then? Maintainer and mailing lists listed in the "DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" entry are on Cc. Who should be Cc'ed? > Then this is imo good to go. > > I assume you'll push it to drm-misc, like all the other dma-buf stuff? Can do that, sure, after collecting the acks ... thanks, Gerd
