On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 03:16 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > The trickiest part seems to be exploring locality for the mapped > > rendering (imagine a multimedia plugin displaying an HD movie). > > Those things require special interfaces, which tunnel streams > through 9P. Maybe something like mjpeg with timestamps.
I don't think tunneling will get you very far. In this particular case you really need to exploit locality and get to do DMA to the device or the like. The tricky portion is arbitrating such resources. Thanks, Roman.
