Re: [Patch 0/2] Proxy memory objects revisited

2009-05-26 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi Neal, On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:35:00PM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > At Mon, 18 May 2009 07:44:54 +0200, > wrote: > This looks like a fine addition. One could imagine more complex > schemes, which enable remapping (think scatter/gather type > mechanisms), however, I don't think that thi

Re: [Patch 0/2] Proxy memory objects revisited

2009-05-18 Thread Neal H. Walfield
This looks like a fine addition. One could imagine more complex schemes, which enable remapping (think scatter/gather type mechanisms), however, I don't think that this is generally useful. Further such additional functionality would significantly increase the complexity whereas your proposal is a

[Patch 0/2] Proxy memory objects revisited

2009-05-17 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, The graphics server needs to pass the framebuffer memory to clients via io_map(). The framebuffer is an mmio region, i.e. a region of the physical address space that needs to be mapped directly. The iopl device provides this functionality; however, the memory object obtained from it is not sui