On Monday 06 December 2010, David Sin wrote: > Tiling and Isometric Lightweight Engine for Rotation (TILER) driver > ===== > > Dynamic Memory Manager (DMM) is a hardware block made by Texas Instruments. > Within the DMM exists at least one TILER hardware component. Its purpose is to > organize video/image memory in a 2-dimensional fashion to limit memory > bandwidth and facilitate 0 effort rotation and mirroring. The TILER driver > facilitates allocating, freeing, as well as mapping 2D blocks (areas) in the > TILER container(s). It also facilitates rotating and mirroring the allocated > blocks or its rectangular subsections. How does this relate to DRM/GEM? I don't understand too much about graphics drivers, but it does sound like there is some overlap in functionality. I guess at the very least the DMM should live in drivers/gpu/ instead of drivers/misc, but perhaps it could be integrated more closely with the existing code there. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
