On 09/28/2018 04:28 PM, Maxime Jourdan wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This patch series adds support for the Amlogic video decoder, > as well as the corresponding dt bindings for GXBB/GXL/GXM chips. > > It features decoding for the following formats: > - MPEG 1 > - MPEG 2 > > The following formats will be added in future patches: > - MJPEG > - MPEG 4 (incl. Xvid, H.263) > - H.264 > - HEVC (incl. 10-bit) > > The following formats' development has still not started, but they are > supported by the hardware: > - VC1 > - VP9 > > The code was made in such a way to allow easy inclusion of those formats > in the future. > > The decoder is single instance. > > Files: > - vdec.c handles the V4L2 M2M logic > - esparser.c manages the hardware bitstream parser > - vdec_helpers.c provides helpers to DONE the dst buffers as well as > various common code used by the codecs > - vdec_1.c manages the VDEC_1 block of the vdec IP > - codec_mpeg12.c enables decoding for MPEG 1/2. > - vdec_platform.c links codec units with vdec units > (e.g vdec_1 with codec_mpeg12) and lists all the available > src/dst formats and requirements (max width/height, etc.), > per compatible chip. > > Firmwares are necessary to run the vdec. They can currently be found at: > https://github.com/chewitt/meson-firmware Are you trying to get this into the linux-firmware repository? I believe that Mauro requires that before he will merge this driver. So I think this driver will be ready to be merged once v4 is posted, dt-bindings is Acked and the firmware is merged to the linux-firmware repo. Regards, Hans
