On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Rob Clark wrote:
> I suspect that this is somehow on the same level as wl_drm (which is
> in mesa, not wayland). The difference here is that since you can
> share buffers with various things (video codecs, cameras, etc), ie.
> things beyond just the gpu, it makes
I suspect that this is somehow on the same level as wl_drm (which is
in mesa, not wayland). The difference here is that since you can
share buffers with various things (video codecs, cameras, etc), ie.
things beyond just the gpu, it makes sense to put the protocol in some
sort of common place rath
Sorry if this was discussed before, but any reason this is being put in
Wayland, and in the "wl_" namespace? DMA-BUF is a private Linux kernel
feature that's really semi-stable, not used by all drivers, and I'd hate
for it to bit-rot and tell people not to use it, the same way wl_shell
went. Having
From: Benjamin Gaignard
The goal of this serie of patches is to add a way to use
dmabuf file descriptor inside wayland and weston.
In a context where there is no Mesa EGL (and so no wl_drm protocol) wl_dmabuf
could be used as an alternative to shm to share buffers between hardware
devices. If yo
