Intel Adds Soft-Pinning Support To DRM Library

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Intel Adds Soft-Pinning Support To DRM Library

20 December 2015, 09:10 AM

Phoronix: Intel Adds Soft-Pinning Support To DRM Library

Intel recently added soft-pin support to their code within the DRM library (libdrm)...

Intel Adds Soft-Pinning Support To DRM Library - Phoronix

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20 December 2015, 01:17 PM

I do so much wish this hadn't been called soft-pin

We have been using the soft-pin terminology internally for GPU access to unpinned memory, now I have to find a new name for it.

Still, it's good to see -- should allow a bit more commonality at the userspace driver level across HW vendors.

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