Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752085AbXAXVr5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:47:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752088AbXAXVr5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:47:57 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58836 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752085AbXAXVr4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:47:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:46:54 -0800 From: Greg KH To: airlied@linux.ie Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: gpu sharing layer for kernel Message-ID: <20070124214654.GA30634@kroah.com> References: <1169637623985-git-send-email-airlied@linux.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1169637623985-git-send-email-airlied@linux.ie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 978 Lines: 25 On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:20:18PM +1100, airlied@linux.ie wrote: > This patch series contains the gpu sharing layer for kernel that I've > mentioned before. It should apply against Linus's git tree. Yeah! > Why do we want this? > > Currently the kernel cannot provide both the fb and drm drivers with > access to the device model and this means the drm cannot get any > suspend/resume callbacks. This layer attempts to fix this problem by > adding a bus for the gpu drivers to attach to. Currently a lowlevel > binding driver is needed along with optional fb and drm components. If we were to allow this kind of "sharing" for all PCI devices would that work out instead? Or would this layer still be needed? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/