Re: DMA-buf and uncached system memory

[Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>]

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Hi Christian

Am 15.02.21 um 09:58 schrieb Christian König:
> Hi guys,
> 
> we are currently working an Freesync and direct scan out from system 
> memory on AMD APUs in A+A laptops.
> 
> On problem we stumbled over is that our display hardware needs to scan 
> out from uncached system memory and we currently don't have a way to 
> communicate that through DMA-buf.
> 
> For our specific use case at hand we are going to implement something 
> driver specific, but the question is should we have something more 
> generic for this?

I had a patchset here that extends iosys-map (former dma-buf-map) with 
caching information. I'll post a copy.

Sorry for being late to reply.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> After all the system memory access pattern is a PCIe extension and as 
> such something generic.
> 
> Regards,
> Christian.
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