From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:59:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfc50417-66ce-44ce-b607-917d678c5631@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24d4f02b-8ecd-4512-a1f0-ba41684ede1d@amd.com>
On 11/24/25 11:54 PM, Christian König wrote:
> On 11/25/25 08:49, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 at 17:45, Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> wrote:
...
> My question is why exactly is nova separated into nova-core and nova-drm? That doesn't seem to be necessary in the first place.
>
The idea is that nova-core allows building up a separate software stack for
VFIO, without pulling in any DRM-specific code that a hypervisor (for example)
wouldn't need. That makes for a smaller, more security-auditable set of code
for that case.
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-25 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-24 23:44 [PATCH] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up Joel Fernandes
2025-11-24 23:46 ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-25 7:45 ` Christian König
2025-11-25 7:49 ` Dave Airlie
2025-11-25 7:54 ` Christian König
2025-11-25 7:59 ` John Hubbard [this message]
2025-11-25 8:10 ` Christian König
2025-11-25 9:08 ` Dave Airlie
2025-11-25 9:14 ` Christian König
2025-11-25 20:17 ` Dave Airlie
2025-11-26 7:44 ` Zhi Wang
2025-11-26 15:17 ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-25 12:36 ` Zhi Wang
2025-11-26 3:17 ` ✗ CI.checkpatch: warning for " Patchwork
2025-11-26 3:18 ` ✓ CI.KUnit: success " Patchwork
2025-11-26 4:17 ` ✓ Xe.CI.BAT: " Patchwork
2025-11-26 7:07 ` ✗ Xe.CI.Full: failure " Patchwork
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