On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Finally, if this IP block is a VP8 video decoding engine only, I'm not > sure DRM is the best subsystem for it. Traditionally video decoding has > been done primarily in V4L2. I'm not sure that's the best fit given that > it was originally designed for video capturing, but they've evolved some > infrastructure to deal with encoding/decoding, whereas we have nothing > like that at all in DRM. v4l maybe works for some vid dec/enc hw if the hw does enough for you.. the common ioctl approach might work for some hw, but I think not really all. For the same reason we don't try to standardize the 3d/2d cmd submission ioctls across drivers.. BR, -R _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
