[PATCH] drm/vgem: implement virtual GEM

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Fri Nov 21 06:02:40 PST 2014


On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 16:26 -0800, Zach Reizner wrote:
> This patch implements the virtual GEM driver with PRIME sharing which
> allows vgem to import a gem object from other drivers for the purpose
> of mmap-ing them to userspace.

The reason I initially wanted this was to get zero-copy llvmpipe, since
(besides making GLX conformance impossible) the image transfer parts of
drisw are easily the biggest part of the runtime overhead.  Is there a
userspace consumer of this anywhere?

- ajax



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