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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 5/7] vfio: Define vfio based dma-buf operations
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
        Xiaoguang Chen <xiaoguang.chen@intel.com>, chris@chris-wilson.co.uk,
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:24:42 +0200
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  Hi,

> I'm not sure I agree regarding the vgpu statement, maybe this is not
> dmabuf specific, but what makes it vgpu specific?  We need to
> separate
> our current usage plans from what it's actually describing and I
> don't
> see that it describes anything vgpu specific.

Well, it describes a framebuffer, what non-graphic device would need
that?

cheers,
  Gerd