[PATCH 1/3] drm/prime: forward begin_cpu_access callback to drivers

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 08:54:33PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> Am 20.12.2017 um 20:43 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Li, Samuel <Samuel.Li at amd.com> wrote:
> > > Ping... can someone please review this patch?
> > Might be simpler to implement your own dma-buf backend instead of
> > going through the drm_prime midlayer. That was mostly written to give
> > nvidia a set of non-EXPORT_GPL symbols to support dma-buf. Or
> > something like that.
> 
> Ah, that explains that. Well the alternative Sam suggest was to export most
> of the functions implementing that.

Yeah that sounds like a good idea, makes it feel less midlayer-y.

> But then we have a hard time having a common detection logic if a DMA-buf
> has a GEM object behind it or not.

Hm, why do you need that? I guess you'll care whether it's an
amdgpu-exported one, and you can still do that by checking against your
own dma_buf_ops table. We do the same in i915, without using the core
drm_prime helpers.

> > Also don't expect people to look at patches when CI bots spot issues.
> 
> That is either a false positive or a one liner.

Hey it's holiday seasons, leave me some cheap excuses pls :-)

Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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