[Linaro-mm-sig] Memory Management Discussion

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Marcus Lorentzon
<marcus.xm.lorentzon at stericsson.com> wrote:
> Am I right if I say GEM only have 3 standard ioctls, FLINK, OPEN, CLOSE? If
> so, a second implementation/variation of "GEM API" could use the same
> namespace for FLINK names across devices and still be called GEM? Just
> probing GEM ground to see what could be "fixed" in GEM and what is written
> in stone.

It's even better, there's not even a generic open for gem objects ;-)
Well, if you
neglect the recently added dumb_create which is just to create a framebuffer
for graphical boot splash screens and unusable for rendering.

Anyway, just a short reply, I'm a bit snowed under atm. I'll send out
an overview
of gem and how I think it could be integrated with the linaro wishlist
after easter.

Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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