Re: GEM/TTM interfaces

[Xavier B. <xav...@fr...>]

Le vendredi 13 juin 2008 à 18:28 +0200, Tomas Carnecky a écrit :
> I have read (don't remember where) that once the kernel has a sensible 
> infrastructure for file descriptors you'd want to convert all the ioctl 
> code in GEM/TTM to standard syscalls. Is that true? Do you already know 
> which syscalls would replace for example drmBOCreate() or the GEM_CREATE 
> ioctl? Both functions create a new handle, so open(2) would be a 
> candidate, but both functions also take a 'size' argument, which open 
> doesn't support, so you'd still have to implement an fcntl/ioctl 
> interface for such things.

ftruncate() ?