DmaBuf - Osx Syphon system ?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sun Jul 8 06:07:58 PDT 2012


On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:56:48 +0200
Ted <tedr56 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi the list,
> 
> I'm following Dave Airlie works on Xorg drivers hotplug and offload for
> Prime project to support Nvidia Optimus technology.
> And I was asking myself, does this all works with dmabuf use could lead
> to a kind of osx syphon concept.
> It's a video sharing buffer between applications, and my question is,
> will it be possible to do the same thing with linux?

The GEM buffers used by drivers should be sufficient for doing the core
of this already.

Alan



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