Re: [RFC simple allocator v1 0/2] Simple allocator

2017-01-25 Thread Laura Abbott
On 01/23/2017 09:35 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 04:32:29PM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: The goal of this RFC is to understand if a common ioctl for specific memory regions allocations is needed/welcome. Obviously it will not replace allocation done in linux kernel framew

Re: [RFC simple allocator v1 0/2] Simple allocator

2017-01-23 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 04:32:29PM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > The goal of this RFC is to understand if a common ioctl for specific memory > regions allocations is needed/welcome. > > Obviously it will not replace allocation done in linux kernel frameworks like > v4l2, drm/kms or others, but

[RFC simple allocator v1 0/2] Simple allocator

2017-01-20 Thread Benjamin Gaignard
The goal of this RFC is to understand if a common ioctl for specific memory regions allocations is needed/welcome. Obviously it will not replace allocation done in linux kernel frameworks like v4l2, drm/kms or others, but offer an alternative when you don't want/need to use them for buffer allocat