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

[Saket Sinha]

Hi IIia,


> 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.
>

Unfortunately, I would need both a mentor and hardware for this project.

If I could be helped with that, I shall really be interested in taking
up this project.

> 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,
>

Thanks for the link. I guess I need to develop a similar
reverse-engineering approach for the project.