Safety of opening up /dev/dma_heap/* to physically present users (udev uaccess tag) ?
Simon Ser
contact at emersion.fr
Thu May 16 07:00:31 UTC 2024
On Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 at 22:42, Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> My experience on Arm platforms is that the KMS drivers offer allocation
> for scanout buffers, not render buffers, and mostly using the dumb
> allocator API. If the KMS device can scan out YUV natively, YUV buffer
> allocation should be supported. Am I missing something here ?
Note that dumb buffers are only intended for simple software-rendering
use-cases. Anything more complicated (e.g. involving GPU rendering)
should use another mechanism.
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