On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Hans Verkuil <hverk...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> > For that matter, wouldn't it be useful to support exporting a userptr >> > buffer >> > at some point in the future? >> >> Shouldn't USERPTR usage be discouraged once we get dma-buf support ? > > Why? It's perfectly fine to use it and it's not going away. > > I'm not saying that we should support exporting a userptr buffer as a dmabuf > fd, > but I'm just wondering if that is possible at all and how difficult it would > be.
it seems not terribly safe, since you don't really have much control over where the memory comes from w/ userptr. I'm more in favor of discouraging usage of userptr BR, -R _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
