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Commit cf1ca9ae authored by Thomas Zimmermann's avatar Thomas Zimmermann
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drm/fb-helper: Map DRM client buffer only when required



This patch changes DRM clients to not map the buffer by default. The
buffer, like any buffer object, should be mapped and unmapped when
needed.

An unmapped buffer object can be evicted to system memory and does
not consume video ram until displayed. This allows to use generic fbdev
emulation with drivers for low-memory devices, such as ast and mgag200.

This change affects the generic framebuffer console. HW-based consoles
map their console buffer once and keep it mapped. Userspace can mmap this
buffer into its address space. The shadow-buffered framebuffer console
only needs the buffer object to be mapped during updates. While not being
updated from the shadow buffer, the buffer object can remain unmapped.
Userspace will always mmap the shadow buffer.

v2:
	* change DRM client to not map buffer by default
	* manually map client buffer for fbdev with HW framebuffer

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNoralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/315830/
parent 15dd0fc8
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