Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] media: platform: Add Sunxi-Cedrus VPU decoder driver
From: Paul Kocialkowski
Date: Fri May 04 2018 - 03:58:57 EST
Hi,
On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 12:13 +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Paul
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 05:45:33PM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > This introduces the Sunxi-Cedrus VPU driver that supports the VPU
> > found
> > in Allwinner SoCs, also known as Video Engine. It is implemented
> > through
> > a v4l2 m2m decoder device and a media device (used for media
> > requests).
> > So far, it only supports MPEG2 decoding.
> >
> > Since this VPU is stateless, synchronization with media requests is
> > required in order to ensure consistency between frame headers that
> > contain metadata about the frame to process and the raw slice data
> > that
> > is used to generate the frame.
> >
> > This driver was made possible thanks to the long-standing effort
> > carried out by the linux-sunxi community in the interest of reverse
> > engineering, documenting and implementing support for Allwinner VPU.
>
> No code review yet, but DT bindings precede the driver. Please also
> add the appropriate MAINTAINERS entries.
Thanks for the indication, will do in the next version(s).
Cheers,
--
Paul Kocialkowski, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
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