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Good to know. Also looking at Nouveau, the "core" part of that driver (nvkm) does not use dmabuf, it is only the DRM parts. It is unlikely nova-core will have to deal with dmabufs or gem objects AFAICS. That's a DRM thing. thanks, - Joel