From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Packard Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/gem: Add new flink_to ioctl Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:59:00 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1278602605-21728-1-git-send-email-krh@bitplanet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1924389838==" Return-path: Received: from keithp.com (home.keithp.com [63.227.221.253]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D6C9E815 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:59:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1278602605-21728-1-git-send-email-krh@bitplanet.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Kristian =?utf-8?Q?H=C3=B8gsberg?= , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org --===============1924389838== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:23:25 -0400, Kristian H=C3=B8gsberg wrote: > - a mechanism to attach a binary blob to an flink_to buffer name. > open_with_data returns the data. Userspace (typically libdrm) > decides the layout and versioning of the blob and the contents > will be chipset specific. it's an opaque blob to the kernel, > which doesn't need to know about stride and formats etc. Arbitrary binary blobs considered harmful? Even if the kernel doesn't need to know all of this data, having it in an explicit (versioned) format will protect applications from randomly mis-interpreting the data. =2D-=20 keith.packard@intel.com --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMNfXEQp8BWwlsTdMRAlnaAKCmDSux1VHAPMmP6Hy2wGwrgTLP3wCfYRNn cpgyflDQqg4CV04KGAsEK8o= =3CcX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- --===============1924389838== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel --===============1924389838==--