On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are two parts to this: first of all you need a way to allocate large > buffers. The CMA patch series is available (but not yet merged) that does this. > I'm not sure of the latest status of this series. > > The other part is that everyone can use and share these buffers. There isn't > anything for this yet. We have discussed this in the past and we need something > generic for this that all subsystems can use. It's not a good idea to tie this > to any specific framework like GEM. Instead any subsystem should be able to use > the same subsystem-independent buffer pool API. yeah, doesn't need to be GEM.. but should at least inter-operate so we can share buffers with the display/gpu.. [snip] >> But maybe it would be nice to have a way to have sensor driver on the >> linux side, pipelined with hw and imaging drivers on a co-processor >> for various algorithms and filters with configuration all exposed to >> userspace thru MCF.. I'm not immediately sure how this would work, but >> it sounds nice at least ;-) > > MCF? What does that stand for? > sorry, v4l2 media controller framework BR, -R -- 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
