Re: platform: coda: how to use firmware-imx binary releases?

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Am 04.10.2017 11:22 schrieb Philipp Zabel:
Hi Martin,

On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 10:44 +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
Hi,

Commit

     be7f1ab26f42 media: coda: mark CODA960 firmware versions 2.3.10 and 3.1.1 as supported

says firmware version 3.1.1 revision 46072 is contained in 
"firmware-imx-5.4.bin", that's probably

     sha1  78a416ae88ff01420260205ce1d567f60af6847e  firmware-imx-5.4.bin

Yes.

How do I use this in order to get a VPU firmware blob that the coda 
platform driver can work with?

These are self-extracting shell scripts with an attached compressed tar
archive. This particular file can be extracted by skipping the first
34087 bytes:

dd if=firmware-imx-5.4.bin bs=34087 skip=1 | tar xjv


thanks!

(Maybe it'd be worth adding some short documentation on this. There 
doesn't seem to be a devicetree bindings doc for coda in 
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media which would
be a good place for documenting how to use these binaries too)

Thank you for pointing this out, the device tree binding docs for coda
are indeed missing.
I'm not sure the device tree binding docs are the right place to
document driver and firmware though. For that, adding a coda.rst entry
to Documentation/media/v4l-drivers would probably be a better place.


True. That'd be great. Some firmware-handling and maybe even firmware
version changelogs would definitely be useful.


I'm running a little off-topic here, but with the newest firmware too, my
coda driver says "Video Data Order Adapter: Disabled" when started
by video playback via v4l2.

(imx6, running linux 4.14-rc3, imx-vdoa is probed and never removed,
a dev_info "probed" would maybe be useful for others too?)

It supsequently fails with

cma: cma_alloc: alloc failed, req-size: 178 pages, ret: -12

which may or may not be related to having the vdoa (is it?), but shouldn't
the VDOA module be active by default?

# cat /sys/module/coda/parameters/disable_vdoa
0

thanks

                                martin




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