On Friday, February 25, 2011 18:22:51 Linus Walleij wrote: > 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey <bilboed@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing at the > > kernel level which v4l2,omx,X,GL,vdpau,vaapi,... can use and that > > userspace (like GStreamer) can pass around, monitor and know about. > > I think the patches sent out from ST-Ericsson's Johan Mossberg to > linux-mm for "HWMEM" (hardware memory) deals exactly with buffer > passing, pinning of buffers and so on. The CMA (Contigous Memory > Allocator) has been slightly modified to fit hand-in-glove with HWMEM, > so CMA provides buffers, HWMEM pass them around. > > Johan, when you re-spin the HWMEM patchset, can you include > linaro-dev and linux-media in the CC? Yes, please. This sounds promising and we at linux-media would very much like to take a look at this. I hope that the CMA + HWMEM combination is exactly what we need. Regards, Hans > I think there is *much* interest > in this mechanism, people just don't know from the name what it > really does. Maybe it should be called mediamem or something > instead... > > Yours, > Linus Walleij > > -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco -- 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
