[Intel-gfx] [RFC] libdrm_intel: Add support for userptr objects

Damien Lespiau damien.lespiau at intel.com
Wed Jul 9 15:16:59 CEST 2014


On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 02:08:08PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> 
> On 06/19/2014 12:13 PM, Damien Lespiau wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:41:41PM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> >>From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> >>
> >>Allow userptr objects to be created and used via libdrm_intel.
> >>
> >>At the moment tiling and mapping to GTT aperture is not supported
> >>due hardware limitations across different generations and uncertainty
> >>about its usefulness.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> >>---
> >>  include/drm/i915_drm.h    |  16 +++++
> >>  intel/intel_bufmgr.c      |  13 ++++
> >>  intel/intel_bufmgr.h      |   5 ++
> >>  intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c  | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >>  intel/intel_bufmgr_priv.h |  12 +++-
> >>  5 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> >Apart from couple of remarks below I couldn't find anything that would
> >prevent merging this. Well, except maybe that it'd be very nice to have
> >some feedback from someone using it, we do have an API/ABI guarantee on
> >libdrm after all.
> 
> Looks like I've forgotten to reply to this. I did address the other
> review comments and sent out a v2 back then.
> 
> But for what users are concerned, apart from internal ones who have
> been using this API for some years now, I don't know of any.

Well, considering this is only a wrapper of an ioctl() already
upstreamed, I'm inclined to just push it as is. Daniel any thoughts?

-- 
Damien



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