[Mesa-dev] EXT_image_dma_buf_import FD ownership

[Tom Cooksey]

> > To my knowledge, there exists only two implementations.
> >
> > ARM ships an implementation for Android on Mali. I don't see such
> > a spec update hurting ARM, because Android devices
> > are fairly locked down systems with a monolithic source tree for each
> > device.
> 
> As far as I know, the Mali driver dropped to Android doesn't have an
> implementation yet, so we're clear here.  The Mali driver dropped to
> ChromeOS does -- because I implemented it :-).  So I think we're good
> on spec changes with respect to Mali.  If the Intel folks are fine
> too, then we can do it.
> 
> I should probably let Tom Cooksey chime in on this though.

Hiya! :-)

Yes we're fine making this change to the spec and the implementation
in the upstream Mali driver. As you say, we don't expose this on Android
as it has its own EGL_ANDROID_image_native_buffer which achieves much
the same thing. So it is really only X11 & fbdev.

I think Dave G (ARM) will raise a Khronos bug on the spec and propose
some new language. This will give other vendors a chance to comment,
though as you say, I believe ARM & Mesa are the only implementations
so doubt there will be any objections.


Cheers,

Tom