ajax: The consumer of this will be software renderers. We're working on one right now that will be using dma-bufs from userspace.<br>Daniel: Thanks for your suggestions. I'll work on it and submit a v2.<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri Nov 21 2014 at 6:02:45 AM Adam Jackson <<a href="mailto:ajax@redhat.com">ajax@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 16:26 -0800, Zach Reizner wrote:<br>
> This patch implements the virtual GEM driver with PRIME sharing which<br>
> allows vgem to import a gem object from other drivers for the purpose<br>
> of mmap-ing them to userspace.<br>
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The reason I initially wanted this was to get zero-copy llvmpipe, since<br>
(besides making GLX conformance impossible) the image transfer parts of<br>
drisw are easily the biggest part of the runtime overhead. Is there a<br>
userspace consumer of this anywhere?<br>
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- ajax<br>
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