[PATCH v2 0/7] Host1x IOMMU support + VIC support

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 02:41:28PM +0200, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
> On 14.12.2016 14:30, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 01:16:10PM +0200, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
> > > This series adds IOMMU support to Host1x and TegraDRM
> > > and adds support for the VIC (Video Image Compositor)
> > > host1x client. The series is available as a git repository at
> > > git://github.com/cyndis/linux.git; branch vic-2.
> > > 
> > > A userspace test case for VIC can be found at
> > > https://github.com/cyndis/drm/tree/work/tegra.
> > > The testcase is in tests/tegra and is called submit_vic.
> > > The testcase/TRM include full headers and documentation
> > > to program the unit. The unit by itself, however, does not
> > > readily map to existing userspace library interfaces, so
> > > implementations for those are not provided.
> > 
> > Afaik libva has an entire pile of post-processing support. Pretty sure
> > other video transcode libraries have similar interfaces, so should all be
> > possible to implement this.
> 
> We don't have any actual video transcoding support though, so unless it's
> possible to just implement a part of libva and defer the rest to some CPU
> implementation, I don't see how this is useful. I suppose I could implement
> a GStreamer plugin for colorspace conversion or resizing, since those are
> very modular.

Hm, I guess the question then is, how did that get enabled?

> > Until that exists I really think that the VIC part (and only that, since
> > tk1/tx1 in general seems to work with nouveau and all that) should stay
> > out of tree.
> 
> Ok. I'll try to whip up something.

But yeah some gstreamer thing might be doable, but not sure they take that
(I don't have any contacts there). Video is a bit a mess, there's no clear
go-to place for dropping some new hw support.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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