From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
Xiaoguang Chen <xiaoguang.chen@intel.com>,
chris@chris-wilson.co.uk, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zhenyuw@linux.intel.com,
zhiyuan.lv@intel.com, intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org,
zhi.a.wang@intel.com, kevin.tian@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 5/7] vfio: Define vfio based dma-buf operations
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 06:52:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170616065226.59d80721@w520.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1497608682.30239.3.camel@redhat.com>
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:24:42 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I'm not sure I agree regarding the vgpu statement, maybe this is not
> > dmabuf specific, but what makes it vgpu specific? We need to
> > separate
> > our current usage plans from what it's actually describing and I
> > don't
> > see that it describes anything vgpu specific.
>
> Well, it describes a framebuffer, what non-graphic device would need
> that?
Graphics is not necessarily vgpu though, which is my point. It should
not be named after our intended use case (vgpu), it should be named
after what it's describing (a framebuffer, or graphics plane). Thanks,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-16 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-15 8:00 [PATCH v9 0/7] drm/i915/gvt: Dma-buf support for GVT-g Xiaoguang Chen
2017-06-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v9 1/7] drm/i915/gvt: Extend the GVT-g architecture Xiaoguang Chen
2017-06-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v9 2/7] drm/i915/gvt: OpRegion support for GVT-g Xiaoguang Chen
2017-06-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v9 3/7] drm: Extend the drm format Xiaoguang Chen
2017-06-15 10:21 ` [Intel-gfx] " Ville Syrjälä
2017-06-20 9:01 ` Zhang, Tina
2017-06-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v9 4/7] drm/i915/gvt: Frame buffer decoder support for GVT-g Xiaoguang Chen
2017-06-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v9 5/7] vfio: Define vfio based dma-buf operations Xiaoguang Chen
2017-06-15 14:51 ` Kirti Wankhede
2017-06-15 16:00 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-15 20:38 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-16 10:24 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-16 12:52 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2017-06-16 13:32 ` Kirti Wankhede
2017-06-16 16:39 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-16 18:28 ` Kirti Wankhede
2017-06-19 6:34 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-19 14:54 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-20 8:35 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-20 13:55 ` Kirti Wankhede
2017-06-21 7:22 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-07-12 13:18 ` Kirti Wankhede
2017-07-14 9:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-19 6:38 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-19 14:55 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-20 8:41 ` [Intel-gfx] " Zhang, Tina
2017-06-20 10:57 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-20 15:00 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-20 17:07 ` Kirti Wankhede
2017-06-20 23:01 ` Zhang, Tina
2017-06-20 23:22 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-21 9:20 ` Zhang, Tina
2017-06-21 11:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-21 18:59 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-22 8:30 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-22 18:54 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-23 7:26 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-23 7:49 ` Zhi Wang
2017-06-23 8:31 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-23 16:40 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-23 17:15 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-26 6:17 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-22 0:21 ` Zhang, Tina
2017-06-21 7:34 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-23 21:58 ` Zhang, Tina
2017-06-26 6:39 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-26 17:28 ` Alex Williamson
2017-06-27 6:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-28 12:48 ` Zhang, Tina
2017-06-29 6:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-06-29 8:39 ` Daniel Vetter
2017-07-04 0:47 ` Zhang, Tina
2017-06-20 13:35 ` Kirti Wankhede
2017-06-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v9 6/7] drm/i915/gvt: Dmabuf support for GVT-g Xiaoguang Chen
2017-06-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v9 7/7] drm/i915/gvt: Adding user interface for dma-buf Xiaoguang Chen
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