Hi Fabio, On 7 June 2012 19:35, Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Javier, > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:30 AM, javier Martin > <javier.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> As i stated, the driver is still in an early development stage, it >> doesn't do anything useful yet. But this is the public git repository >> if you want to take a look: >> >> git repo: https://github.com/jmartinc/video_visstrim.git >> branch: mx27-codadx6 > > Thanks, I will take a look at your tree when I am back to the office next week. > > I also see that Linaro's tree has support for VPU for mx5/mx6: > http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=landing-teams/working/freescale/kernel.git;a=summary > > ,so we should probably think in unifying it with mx27 support there too. > >> >> FYI we are only interested on adding support for the encoding path of >> the VPU, but we are trying our best to make it modular (as it is done >> in Samsung's [1]), so that anyone can add decoding support later. > > Ok, sounds good. > >> By the way, you work for Freescale, don't you? > > Yes, correct. > >> We have a couple of issues with the i.MX27 VPU: >> >> 1- Firmware for the VPU is provided as a table of binary values inside >> a source file which is licensed as GPL, however software is packaged >> in a .tar.gz file that is marked as NDA. Do we have the right to >> distribute this firmware with our products? To address this issue it would be great if you, as a Freescale employee, could send VPU firmware binary file to linux-firmware with a LICENSE.xxxx file as well: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree >> 2- There is a BUG in the firmware that marks P frames as IDR when it >> should only be done to I frames. Would it be possible to have access >> to the source code of the firmware in order to fix that problem? > > I will need to check this next week when I am back to the office. Regards. -- Javier Martin Vista Silicon S.L. CDTUC - FASE C - Oficina S-345 Avda de los Castros s/n 39005- Santander. Cantabria. Spain +34 942 25 32 60 www.vista-silicon.com -- 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
