Re: [RFC v2 8/8] drm: tegra: Add gr2d device

[Lucas Stach <dev@lynxeye.de>]

Am Freitag, den 30.11.2012, 09:44 +0200 schrieb Terje Bergström:
> On 29.11.2012 14:14, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:09:13AM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> >> This way you would also be able to construct different handles (like GEM
> >> obj or V4L2 buffers) from the same backing nvhost object. Note that I'm
> >> not sure how useful this would be, but it seems like a reasonable design
> >> to me being able to do so.
> > 
> > Wouldn't that be useful for sharing buffers between DRM and V4L2 using
> > dma-buf? I'm not very familiar with how exactly importing and exporting
> > work with dma-buf, so maybe I need to read up some more.
> 
> I would still preserve the dma-buf support, for exactly this purpose.
> 
dma-buf is useful and should be preserved, as some userspace like
gstreamer might rely on us being able to import/export dma-buf handles
at some time. At the very latest we'll need it if someone wants to run a
UDL device to scanout a buffer rendered to by the internal GPU.

What I'm saying is just that with a common allocator we could cut down a
lot on the usage of dma-buf, where not really necessary. Also you might
be able to do some optimisations based on the fact that a dma-buf handle
exported for some V4L2 buffer, which gets imported into DRM to construct
a GEM object, is the very same nvhost object in the end.

Regards,
Lucas