[PATCH] gem: RFC: add support for private objects

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Alan Cox <alan at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> These small changes should allow GEM to be used with non shmem objects as
> well as shmem objects. In the GMA500 case it allows the base framebuffer to
> appear as a GEM object and thus acquire a handle and work with KMS.
>
> For i915 it ought to be trivial to get back the wasted memory but putting the
> system fb back into stolen RAM and in general I can imagine it allowing the
> use of GEM and thus KMS with all the older cards that have their framebuffer
> firmly placed in video RAM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan at linux.intel.com>

Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob at ti.com>