Tivy, Robert wrote: > Lloyd, > > Nothing is set in stone at this point, and I probably used bad wording. > Perhaps a better statement would have been "maintain legacy usage while > we tell folks not to use it for unsupported purposes". After a > deprecation period, we can shoot it. > One of these "unsupported" purposes would be to allow the DSP to directly output into framebuffer memory. Unless of course you make the framebuffer driver allocate its memory from CMEM, which is not so nice ... > - Rob > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Lloyd Sargent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 2:46 PM >> To: davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com >> Cc: Diego Dompe; Tivy, Robert >> Subject: Re: Translating kernel virtual address to physical address >> >> On Friday 26 October 2007 16:22, Diego Dompe wrote: >> >>>> Another point worth mentioning is that CMEM has a >>>> >> history of being >> >>>> used for buffers that were not granted by CMEM. I'm >>>> >> speaking of the >> >>>> get_phys functionality, where users of CMEM will also call CMEM's >>>> get_phys functionality for buffers that were not obtained >>>> >> by CMEM. >> >>>> This is not a supported use case, but we are almost forced to >>>> support this due to established legacy usage. >>>> >> Can this be deprecated or is this set in stone? I mean, can >> T.I. say "well, we used to do it this way, but it prevents us >> from moving forward" (which sounds like it does)? >> >> It sounds like you have, in essence, warned them that it is >> not supported. >> Hence, perhaps I don't understand why it must be supported... >> sounds very contradictory. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Lloyd >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list > Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com > http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source >
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