Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] drm driver for baytrail's vxd392

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 08:15:00PM +0800, Yao Cheng wrote:
>> drm/ipvr is a new GEM driver for baytrail's vxd392, which accelerates VP8 video decoding.
>> The driver name "ipvr" means the PowerVR's IP wrapped by Intel. In the future, ipvr may support other platforms such as Merrifield.
>> Code is placed at drivers/gpu/drm/ipvr and the following two new Kconfig are added:
>>   CONFIG_DRM_IPVR: Build option for ipvr module
>>   CONFIG_DRM_IPVR_EC: Experimental feature of error concealment
>>
>> User mode drm helper "libdrm_ipvr.so" and simple test are also included.
>>
>> Yao Cheng (3):
>>  [1/3] drm/i915: add vxd392 bridge in i915 on baytrail
>>  [2/3] drm/ipvr: ipvr drm driver for vxd392
>
> If this is Intel-specific, why doesn't it live under the i915 driver?

It is an entirely unrelated HW IP block, VXD392.  Nothing to do with
GEN aside from DRM based.

Sean

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Intel Corp.
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