From: Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@linux.intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jiho Chu <jiho.chu@samsung.com>,
Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Maciej Kwapulinski <maciej.kwapulinski@linux.intel.com>,
Jacek Lawrynowicz <jacek.lawrynowicz@linux.intel.com>,
Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
Yuji Ishikawa <yuji2.ishikawa@toshiba.co.jp>,
stanislaw.gruszka@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] drivers/accel: define kconfig and register a new major
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 14:25:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221107132503.GA3590860@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y2kDzPswkKyZyRpS@nvidia.com>
Hi
On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 09:10:36AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 03:01:08PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> > I don't agree with your statement that it should be "a layer over top of DRM".
> > Anything on top of DRM is a device driver.
> > Accel is not a device driver, it is a new type of drm minor / drm driver.
>
> Yeah, I still think this is not the right way, you are getting almost
> nothing from DRM and making everything more complicated in the
> process.
>
> > The only alternative imo to that is to abandon the idea of reusing
> > drm, and just make an independant accel core code.
>
> Not quite really, layer it properly and librarize parts of DRM into
> things accel can re-use so they are not intimately tied to the DRM
> struct device notion.
What do you mean by "struct device notion" ? struct drm_devce ?
Regards
Stanislaw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-07 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-02 20:34 [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] new subsystem for compute accelerator devices Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 20:34 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] drivers/accel: define kconfig and register a new major Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 21:04 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2022-11-03 13:28 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 22:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2022-11-03 13:29 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-03 0:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-11-03 13:31 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-03 20:39 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-03 23:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2022-11-04 7:23 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2022-11-07 12:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-11-07 13:01 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-07 13:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-11-07 13:25 ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2022-11-07 14:02 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-07 14:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-11-07 15:53 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-07 16:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-11-07 19:27 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-07 20:33 ` Dave Airlie
2022-11-08 12:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-11-09 7:22 ` Dave Airlie
2022-11-07 20:18 ` Dave Airlie
2022-11-02 20:34 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] accel: add dedicated minor for accelerator devices Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 21:17 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2022-11-06 10:51 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-03 5:25 ` Jiho Chu
2022-11-06 10:54 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-06 14:15 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 20:34 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] drm: initialize accel framework Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 21:30 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2022-11-06 10:55 ` Oded Gabbay
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