[Nouveau] GSOC 2016 Aspirant for Kepler Accelerated Video Encoding;

[Karol Herbst]

Ohh completly missed that message, ignore the noise I created with my reply then
:)

> Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> hat am 1. März 2016 um 09:56 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> First, make sure there's a mentor available -- I doubt I'll have time to do
> it, but perhaps someone else will be able to.
> 
> I would recommend writing a minimal application that e.g. encodes a fixed
> group of frames. You should then trace this app under the blob with both
> mmiotrace to figure out how to configure the underlying engine (probably
> just firmware to upload), as well as get a mmt trace to figure out the fifo
> interface end of it.
> 
> You could then write a proof of concept app that ran on top of nouveau and
> encoded those same frames (with a cooked cmd stream). Once that works, it's
> just a question of generalizing the commands to deal with different
> parameters, etc. (And sticking the whole thing into Mesa.)
> 
> This is what I did when re'ing VP2, you can see some of the programs I used
> at github.com/imirkin/re-vp2. Obviously the ones needed here will be
> different but it should give an idea of what I mean.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>   -ilia
> On Mar 1, 2016 12:13 AM, "Saket Sinha" <saket.sinha89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > First of all, congratulations to the X.org team for selection into
> > Google Summer of Code 2016.
> >
> > I would like to participate to Google Summer of Code 2016 by
> > contributing to Kepler Accelerated Video Encoding for Nouveau.
> >
> > I request you to kindly guide me as to how to get started with this
> > project.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Saket Sinha
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