On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Giulio Benetti wrote: > Hi Hans, > > Il 16/11/2017 14:12, Hans Verkuil ha scritto: > > On 16/11/17 13:57, Giulio Benetti wrote: > > > Il 16/11/2017 13:53, Maxime Ripard ha scritto: > > > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 01:30:52PM +0100, Giulio Benetti wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:37:30AM +0100, Giulio Benetti wrote: > > > > > > > Il 16/11/2017 11:31, Andreas Baierl ha scritto: > > > > > > > > Am 16.11.2017 um 11:13 schrieb Giulio Benetti: > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > I'm wondering why cedrus > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/FlorentRevest/linux-sunxi-cedrus has never been > > > > > > > > > merged with linux-sunxi sunxi-next. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Because it is not ready to be merged. It depends on the v4l2 request > > > > > > > > API, which was not merged and which is re-worked atm. > > > > > > > > Also, sunxi-cedrus itself is not in a finished state and is not as > > > > > > > > feature-complete to be merged. Anyway it might be something for > > > > > > > > staging... Has there been a [RFC] on the mailing list at all? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Where can I find a list of TODOs to get it ready to be merged? > > > > > > > > > > > > Assuming that the request API is in, we'd need to: > > > > > > - Finish the MPEG4 support > > > > > > - Work on more useful codecs (H264 comes to my mind) > > > > > > - Implement the DRM planes support for the custom frame format > > > > > > - Implement the DRM planes support for scaling > > > > > > - Test it on more SoCs > > > > > > > > > > > > Or something along those lines. > > > > > > > > > > Lot of work to do > > > > > > > > Well... If it was fast and easy it would have been done already :) > > > > > > :)) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I see it seems to be dead, no commit in 1 year. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, because the author did this during an internship, which ended ... > > > > > > > > Afaik nobody picked up his work yet. > > > > > > > > > > > > That's not entirely true. Some work has been done by Thomas (in CC), > > > > > > especially on the display engine side, but last time we talked his > > > > > > work was not really upstreamable. > > > > > > > > > > > > We will also resume that effort starting next march. > > > > > > > > > > Is it possible a preview on a separate Reporitory to start working on now? > > > > > Expecially to start porting everything done by FlorentRevest to mainline, > > > > > admitted you've not already done. > > > > > > > > I'm not sure what you're asking for. Florent's work *was* on mainline. > > > > > > and then they took it off because it was unmantained? > > > You've spoken about Thomas(in CC) not ready, > > > maybe I could help on that if it's public to accelerate. > > > If I'm able to of course, this is my primary concern. > > > > > > Otherwise, in which way can I help improving it to make it accept to linux-sunxi? > > > Starting from Florent's work and porting it to sunxi-next to begin? > > > And after that adding all features you've listed? > > > Tell me what I can do(I repeat, if I'm able to). > > > > The bottleneck is that the Request API is not mainlined. We restarted work > > on it after a meeting a few weeks back where we all agreed on the roadmap > > so hopefully it will go into mainline Q1 or Q2 next year. > > > > That said, you can use Florent's patch series for further development. > > It should be relatively easy to convert it to the final version of the > > Request API. Just note that the public API of the final Request API will > > be somewhat different from the old version Florent's patch series is using. > > So I'm going to try soon to : > 1) adapt that patchset to sunxi-next > 2) add A20 support > 3) add A33 support > 4) after mainlined APIs, merge That sounds good. Thomas already has the support for the A20, and as I was saying, there is someone that is going to work full time on this in a couple monthes on our side. I'll set up a git repo on github so that we can collaborate until the request API is ready. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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