Re: Safety of opening up /dev/dma_heap/* to physically present users (udev uaccess tag) ?

Laurent Pinchart
2024-05-16T11:21:07Z

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 07:00:31AM +0000, Simon Ser wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 at 22:42, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>
> > My experience on Arm platforms is that the KMS drivers offer allocation
> > for scanout buffers, not render buffers, and mostly using the dumb
> > allocator API. If the KMS device can scan out YUV natively, YUV buffer
> > allocation should be supported. Am I missing something here ?
>
> Note that dumb buffers are only intended for simple software-rendering
> use-cases. Anything more complicated (e.g. involving GPU rendering)
> should use another mechanism.

Sure. Even if dumb buffers may work for GPU rendering in some cases,
there's no guarantee they will, so they shouldn't be used.

My comment was related to scanout buffers, as I was puzzled by Nicolas
mentioning how "KMS drivers only offer allocation for render buffers".
On Arm platforms the render buffers are allocated on the GPU's DRM
device as far as I understand, while the KMS drivers allocate scanout
buffers using the dumb buffers API.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart