DMA-buf and uncached system memory

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann at suse.de
Thu Jun 23 08:13:56 UTC 2022


Hi Christian

Am 15.02.21 um 09:58 schrieb Christian König:
> Hi guys,
> 
> we are currently working an Freesync and direct scan out from system 
> memory on AMD APUs in A+A laptops.
> 
> On problem we stumbled over is that our display hardware needs to scan 
> out from uncached system memory and we currently don't have a way to 
> communicate that through DMA-buf.
> 
> For our specific use case at hand we are going to implement something 
> driver specific, but the question is should we have something more 
> generic for this?

I had a patchset here that extends iosys-map (former dma-buf-map) with 
caching information. I'll post a copy.

Sorry for being late to reply.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> After all the system memory access pattern is a PCIe extension and as 
> such something generic.
> 
> Regards,
> Christian.
> _______________________________________________
> dri-devel mailing list
> dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel

-- 
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_signature
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 840 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20220623/1c94d990/attachment.sig>


More information about the dri-devel mailing list