From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48604 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756124AbZJ0HtH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:49:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:49:15 +0100 (CET) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski To: Laurent Pinchart cc: Stefan.Kost@nokia.com, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, hverkuil@xs4all.nl, sakari.ailus@maxwell.research.nokia.com, david.cohen@nokia.com, antti.koskipaa@nokia.com, vimarsh.zutshi@nokia.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Global video buffers pool In-Reply-To: <200909282354.25563.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Message-ID: References: <200909161746.39754.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> <200909282354.25563.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi This is a general comment to the whole "(contiguous) video buffer" work: having given a talk at the ELC-E in Grenoble on soc-camera, I mentioned briefly a few related RFCs, including this one. I've got a couple of comments back, including the following ones (which is to say, opinions are not mine and may or may not be relevant, I'm just fulfilling my promise to pass them on;)): 1) has been requested to move this discussion to a generic mailing list like LKML. 2) the reason for (1) was, obviously, to consider making such a buffer pool also available to other subsystems, of which video / framebuffer drivers have been mentioned as likely interested parties. (btw, not sure if this has also been mentioned among those wishes - what about DVB? Can they also use such buffers?) Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/