Re: [RFC] TTM user interface.

[Austin Y. <yua...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Thomas Hellström
<th...@tu...> wrote:
>
> Austin, I don't think it's the right thing to add that to this user-space
> interface.
> If you want to target a specific driver with this functionality, just add a
> driver-specific
> ioctl that does exactly what you want.
>
Understood.

> It looks to me that the best way to do this for camera capture or for
> v4l-like stuff is to have the
> video input kernel driver allocate a buffer object from DRM, and DMA
> directly into that
> buffer object?
>
> It would be better to try to set up such a generic interface within drm
> itself,
>
Is there a way to get drm_device in a separate kernel module, which is
the first parameter of drm_buffer_object_create, if taking TTM as an
example?

Thanks
Austin