[PATCH 0/4] media: platform: Add Aspeed Video Engine driver

From: Eddie James
Date: Wed Aug 29 2018 - 17:09:48 EST


The Video Engine (VE) embedded in the Aspeed AST2400 and AST2500 SOCs
can capture and compress video data from digital or analog sources. With
the Aspeed chip acting as a service processor, the Video Engine can
capture the host processor graphics output.

This series adds a V4L2 driver for the VE, providing a read() interface
only. The driver triggers the hardware to capture the host graphics output
and compress it to JPEG format.

Testing on an AST2500 determined that the videobuf/streaming/mmap interface
was significantly slower than the simple read() interface, so I have not
included the streaming part.

It's also possible to use an automatic mode for the VE such that
re-triggering the HW every frame isn't necessary. However this wasn't
reliable on the AST2400, and probably used more CPU anyway due to excessive
interrupts. It was approximately 15% faster.

The series also adds the necessary parent clock definitions to the Aspeed
clock driver, with both a mux and clock divider.

Eddie James (4):
clock: aspeed: Add VIDEO reset index definition
clock: aspeed: Setup video engine clocking
dt-bindings: media: Add Aspeed Video Engine binding documentation
media: platform: Add Aspeed Video Engine driver

.../devicetree/bindings/media/aspeed-video.txt | 23 +
drivers/clk/clk-aspeed.c | 41 +-
drivers/media/platform/Kconfig | 8 +
drivers/media/platform/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/media/platform/aspeed-video.c | 1307 ++++++++++++++++++++
include/dt-bindings/clock/aspeed-clock.h | 1 +
6 files changed, 1379 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/aspeed-video.txt
create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/aspeed-video.c

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