From: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:10:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f433dee-7ad9-4d0f-8ac1-e67deb409b70@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dfc50417-66ce-44ce-b607-917d678c5631@nvidia.com>
On 11/25/25 08:59, John Hubbard wrote:
> 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.
Well that is the same argument used by some AMD team to maintain a separate out of tree hypervisor for nearly a decade.
Additional to that the same argument has also been used to justify the KFD node as alternative API to DRM for compute.
Both cases have proven to be extremely bad ideas.
Background is that except for all the legacy stuff the DRM API is actually very well thought through and it is actually quite hard to come up with something similarly well.
Regards,
Christian.
>
> thanks,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-25 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ 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
2025-11-25 8:10 ` Christian König [this message]
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
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