[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 01/12] vl: add parameters for VAAPI encode

[Christian König]

Am 05.07.2016 um 13:17 schrieb Christian König:
> Am 01.07.2016 um 18:18 schrieb Andy Furniss:
>> Christian König wrote:
>>> Am 01.07.2016 um 18:02 schrieb Andy Furniss:
>>>> Christian König wrote:
>>>>> Am 01.07.2016 um 16:42 schrieb Andy Furniss:
>>>>>> Boyuan Zhang wrote:
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Boyuan Zhang <boyuan.zhang at amd.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this supposed to be the same functionally as the first version?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I notice on Tonga that I previously got cabac, but don't now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I see the new options are now in radeon_vce_52.c whereas before
>>>>>> radeon_vce_40_2_2.c was changed - is this why?
>>>>>
>>>>> We wanted to keep the code for the old firmware versions as it is,
>>>>> because we otherwise would need to test them again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because of this we moved all modifications into radeon_vce_52.c.
>>>>
>>>> Oh OK, I guess it's early days but cabac was one thing that seemed OK.
>>>>
>>>> There are many issued on Tonga using vaapi - but then I suppose
>>>> gstreamer and ffmpeg are not really set up for it yet.
>>>>
>>>> eg. worse first = gpu vm fault/lock with gstreamer but not ffmpeg.
>>>>
>>>> to provoke do
>>>>
>>>> gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! video/x-raw, format=NV12, width=1920,
>>>> height=1080, framerate=60/1 ! vaapih264enc | fakesink
>>>>
>>>> then flip away/back to another desktop soon will lock.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I am too early eg. other patches needed? or does what you say
>>>> above mean that vaapienc shouldn't even be enabled for older chips?
>>>
>>> Tonga should be perfectly supported, you just need recent enough 
>>> firmware.
>>>
>>> What does "dmesg | grep 'Found VCE firmware Version'" give you?
>>
>> Found VCE firmware Version: 50.17 Binary ID: 3
>
> Mhm, well looks like we haven't released the right firmware for Tonga 
> yet :(
>
> Going to leave you a note when we have everything together.

The new firmware landed on Monday and the final patchset was released 
yesterday night.

Have fun testing it,
Christian.

>
> Cheers,
> Christian.
>
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