Re: A simple alternative to GEMr

2013-10-03 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi, DirectFB is a good example of "doing it all in userspace". It works but at the cost of ending up with pretty custom interfaces and non-standard ways of handling things such as buffer addresses (physical) w.r.t to h/w acceleration, IPC/RPC, buffer sharing for multi-process support, etc. Memory

Re: A simple alternative to GEMr

2013-10-03 Thread Rob Clark
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:48 AM, dm.leontiev7 wrote: > Hello > > In my opinion, graphics stack will benefit from moving memory management to > userspace because there are tons of features not available in kernel, like > simd or c++. both of which bring no benefit to memory management code > Als