[RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

[javier Martin]

Hi Robert,

On 8 June 2012 09:26, Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hi Javier,
>
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 09:21:13AM +0200, javier Martin wrote:
>> If you refer to driver in [1] I have some concerns: i.MX27 VPU should
>> be implemented as a V4L2 mem2mem device since it gets raw pictures
>> from memory and outputs encoded frames to memory (some discussion
>> about the subject can be fond here [2]), as Exynos driver from Samsung
>> does. However, this driver you've mentioned doesn't do that: it just
>> creates several mapping regions so that the actual functionality is
>> implemented in user space by a library provided by Freescale, which
>> regarding i.MX27 it is also GPL.
>>
>> What we are trying to do is implementing all the functionality in
>> kernel space using mem2mem V4L2 framework so that it can be accepted
>> in mainline.
>
> We will work on the VPU driver and it's migration towards a proper
> mem2mem device very soon, mainly on MX53, but of course MX27 should be
> taken care of by the same driver.
>
> So I'd suggest that we coordinate that work somehow.

Do you plan to provide both encoding and decoding support or just one of them?

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