Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/2] virtio-gpu: add resource create blob

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 1:34 AM Gerd Hoffmann <> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:46:28AM -0700, Gurchetan Singh wrote:
> > Blob resources are size-based containers for host, guest, or
> > host+guest allocations.  These resources are designed with
> > mulit-process 3D support in mind, but also usable in virtio-gpu 2d
> > with guest memory.
> >
> > Many hypercalls are reused, since a image view into the blob resource
> > is possible.
> >
> > Blob resources are both forward and backward looking.
> >
> > v2: Add TRANSFER_BLOB, SET_SCANOUT_BLOB, SCANOUT_FLUSH
> > v3: Remove SCANOUT_FLUSH and add notes
> > v4: Remove TRANSFER_BLOB for now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gurchetan Singh <>
>
> Both patches look good to me.
>
> Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <>
>
> See .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md (in the virtio-spec repo) for the
> merge process.

Thanks, will do after UUID patches land in virtio-spec / drm-misc-next!

>
> take care,
>   Gerd
>