Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] media: rkvdec: Add a VP9 backend

[Ezequiel Garcia]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 16:04, Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> This is v5 of the series adding VP9 profile 0 decoding to rkvdec.
>
> All feedback from v4 should be addressed, there's just one thing I did
> not address: ref_frame_sign_biases in the uAPI. The userspace tool I'm

I believe that Hantro G2 VP9 needs ref_frame_sign_biases.

I think that it's also needed for the MTK decoder.
Might be worth checking that as well, if the code is publicly
available somewhere.

Coming to think about it, I think we are really close to having
this uAPI directly upstream.

Let's take a step back on why we have these uAPIs in the staging
area. Couple years ago, there were some doubts in the media community
about these uAPIs, and we wanted to wait a bit for more users
before moving to public land.

The uAPIs were meant to be in staging until enough users
appeared and we were confident enough to move to stable.

For VP9, given the feedback received through the year was already
addressed, I think all that's left is to check the interface and make sure
it can support Rockchip (RK3399, RK3326, etc), Hantro G2 and Mediatek,

We will be very close to having a public API, and we could even merge it
directly there.

Thanks,
Ezequiel

> using [1] apparently doesn't need it or the default hwreg value for it
> is capable of decoding the bitstreams I used on the driver, so I don't
> really have a use-case to change and test that. :)
>
> Considering the uAPI is a work in progress and expected to be modified,
> ref_frame_sign_biases can be added later with others which might be
> required to enable more functionality (for eg profiles >= 1).
>
> Series tested on rk3399 and applies on next-20201030.
>
> [1] https://github.com/Kwiboo/FFmpeg/tree/v4l2-request-hwaccel-4.2.2-rkvdec
>
> Changelog
> ---------
>
> v5:
>
> * Drop unnecessary OUTPUT buffer payload set in .buf_prepare.
> * Drop obsolete .per_request ctrl flag
> * Added new vp9 ctrls to v4l2_ctrl_ptr
> * Fix pahole detected padding issues
> * Send userspace an error if it tries to reconfigure decode resolution
>   as v4l2 or rkvdec-vp9 backend do not support dynamic res changes yet
> * Allow frame ctx probability tables to be non-mandatory so users can
>   set them directly during frame decoding in cases where no defaults
>   have been set previously (eg. ffmpeg vp9 backend)
> * Some comments and documentation clarifications
> * Minor checkpatch fixes
>
> v4:
>
> * Drop color_space field from the VP9 interface.
>   V4L2 API should be used for it.
> * Clarified Segment-ID comments.
> * Moved motion vector probabilities to a separate
>   struct.
>
> v3:
>
> * Fix documentation issues found by Hans.
> * Fix smatch detected issues as pointed out by Hans.
> * Added patch to fix wrong bytesused set on .buf_prepare.
>
> v2:
>
> * Documentation style issues pointed out by Nicolas internally.
> * s/VP9_PROFILE_MAX/V4L2_VP9_PROFILE_MAX/
> * Fix wrong kfree(ctx).
> * constify a couple structs on rkvdec-vp9.c
>
>
> Boris Brezillon (2):
>   media: uapi: Add VP9 stateless decoder controls
>   media: rkvdec: Add the VP9 backend
>
> Ezequiel Garcia (1):
>   media: rkvdec: Fix .buf_prepare
>
>  .../userspace-api/media/v4l/biblio.rst        |   10 +
>  .../media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst             |  550 ++++++
>  drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls.c          |  239 +++
>  drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c          |    1 +
>  drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/Makefile         |    2 +-
>  drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/rkvdec-vp9.c     | 1577 +++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/rkvdec.c         |   72 +-
>  drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/rkvdec.h         |    6 +
>  include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h                    |    5 +
>  include/media/vp9-ctrls.h                     |  486 +++++
>  10 files changed, 2942 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/rkvdec-vp9.c
>  create mode 100644 include/media/vp9-ctrls.h
>
> --
> 2.29.0
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