[android-kernel] Re: FYI - Android ION Mem allocator [/dev/ion] replacement for PMEM

2012-05-17 Thread Nimesh Chanchani
Hi There, I am using a pandaboard , and I have ubuntu chrooted from android. i have a framebuffer that i want to overlay on the android side , which is being produced on the ubuntu side. to share memory , I know i can use "ashmem" or "ion_alloc"  , but i dont want to use them as it would involve a

[android-kernel] Re: FYI - Android ION Mem allocator [/dev/ion] replacement for PMEM

2012-05-01 Thread Yingyun
Hi Bala: My understanding form lwn.net site and linaro article, ION has more unified interface to manipulate memory buffer whatever it allocate from physical contiguous or virtual contiguous since it's has different memory heap allocator. You can choose it according to your requirement or custo

[android-kernel] Re: FYI - Android ION Mem allocator [/dev/ion] replacement for PMEM

2012-04-25 Thread Bala Abiraman
Dear, what will be the advantage over ion comparing with pmem? BR On Mar 6, 5:14 pm, jagan <402ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Google has approached a new mem allocation phenomena as a replacement > for PMEM in Androidv4. > > The new allocator talks about > "It's a unified approach to buff