[PATCH] doc: gpu: Add document describing buffer exchange

[Simon Ser]

On Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 at 10:13, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 04:18:22PM -0800, James Jones wrote:
> > On 9/6/21 5:28 AM, Simon Ser wrote:
> > > > Since there's a lot of confusion around this, document both the rules
> > > > and the best practice around negotiating, allocating, importing, and
> > > > using buffers when crossing context/process/device/subsystem boundaries.
> > > >
> > > > This ties up all of dmabuf, formats and modifiers, and their usage.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for this write-up! This looks very good to me, a few comments
> > > below.
> >
> > Agreed, it would be awesome if this were merged somewhere. IMHO, a lot of
> > the non-trivial/typo suggestions below could be taken care of as follow-on
> > patches, as the content here is better in than out, even if it could be
> > clarified a bit.
>
> Seconded on just landing this without trying to perfect it first, because
> I was just looking for it and didn't find it anywhere :-/

Let me know if you lack time for this daniels, I can work on a new version.
I don't want this to be lost in review limbo!