Hi Hans, On 09/05/2016 05:47 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On 08/22/2016 03:13 PM, Stanimir Varbanov wrote: >> This patchset introduces a basic support for Qualcomm video >> acceleration hardware used for video stream decoding/encoding. >> The video IP can found on various qcom SoCs like apq8084, msm8916 >> and msm8996, hence it is widly distributed but the driver is >> missing in the mainline. >> >> The v4l2 driver is something like a wrapper over Host Firmware >> Interface. The HFI itself is a set of command and message packets >> send/received through shared memory, and its purpose is to >> comunicate with the firmware which is run on remote processor. >> The Venus is the name of the video hardware IP that doing the >> video acceleration. >> >> From the software point of view the HFI interface is implemented >> in the files with prefix hfi_xxx. It acts as a translation layer >> between HFI and v4l2 layer. There is one special file in the >> driver called hfi_venus which doing most of the driver >> orchestration work. Something more it setups Venus core, run it >> and handle commands and messages from low-level point of view with >> the help of provided functions by HFI interface. >> >> I think that the driver is in good shape for mainline kernel, and >> I hope the review comments will help to improve it, so please >> do review and make comments. > > I was hoping that I could finish reviewing this patch series today, > but that didn't work out. > > I have more time next week, but I wonder if it isn't better if you make a > v2 first, taking my comments into account. Then I can review v2 next week. OK, I have more of your comments addressed plus few of Bjorn's too. > > Also test with the latest v4l2-compliance (i.e. as of today) since I improved > a few tests relating to g/s_selection and g/s_parm. Sure, I will retest and post the results in cover letter. -- regards, Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
