[PATCH v5 0/9] Add MT8173 Video Decoder Driver

[Tiffany Lin]

Hi Hans,

On Mon, 2016-09-05 at 12:09 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 09/05/2016 11:53 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On 09/05/2016 11:50 AM, Tiffany Lin wrote:
> >> Hi Hans,
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2016-09-05 at 11:33 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >>> On 09/02/2016 02:19 PM, Tiffany Lin wrote:
> >>>> ==============
> >>>>  Introduction
> >>>> ==============
> >>>>
> >>>> The purpose of this series is to add the driver for video codec hw embedded in the Mediatek's MT8173 SoCs.
> >>>> Mediatek Video Codec is able to handle video decoding and encoding of in a range of formats.
> >>>>
> >>>> This patch series rely on MTK VPU driver that have been merged in v4.8-rc1.
> >>>> Mediatek Video Decoder driver rely on VPU driver to load, communicate with VPU.
> >>>>
> >>>> Internally the driver uses videobuf2 framework, and MTK IOMMU and MTK SMI both have been merged in v4.6-rc1.
> >>>>
> >>>> [1]https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/245241/
> >>>
> >>> This patch series fails to apply to the media_tree master (patch 3/9). Can you rebase and repost?
> >>>
> >>> I'm ready to make a pull request for this, so I hope you can fix this soon.
> >>>
> >> I saw Encoder fix patches in fixes branch.
> >> This patch series is base on Encoder fix patches. 
> >>
> >> [media] vcodec:mediatek: Refine VP8 encoder driver
> >> [media] vcodec:mediatek: Refine H264 encoder driver
> >> [media] vcodec:mediatek: change H264 profile default to profile high
> >> [media] vcodec:mediatek: Add timestamp and timecode copy for V4L2
> >> Encoder
> >> [media] vcodec:mediatek: Fix visible_height larger than coded_height
> >> issue in s_fmt_out
> >> [media] vcodec:mediatek: Fix fops_vcodec_release flow for V4L2 Encoder
> >> [media] vcodec:mediatek:code refine for v4l2 Encoder driver
> >> [media] dvb_frontend: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its
> >> implementation
> >>
> >>
> >> If I do not rebase decoder patch series base on Encoder fix pathces.
> >> Then it will fail after Encoder fix patches merged.
> >>
> >> May I know what parent patch I need to rebase to to fix this issue?
> > 
> > Ah, OK. I will retest placing this on top of those fixes. I forgot about the
> > pending fixes. I'll handle this.
> 
> OK, that works much better when it is on top of the fixes.
> 
> Only one thing is missing: an entry in the MAINTAINERS file. Strange that that
> wasn't done for the encoder driver, we must have missed that. So can you make a
> patch adding the en/decoder driver to this file? I'm ready to make the pull
> request once I have that.
> 
Got it. I will check and update it.

I have a question about decoder device node.
In v5 decoder patch series, I do not add device node patch at end of
patch series.
I plain to put it in MT21C format patch series, is it ok?


best regards,
Tiffany



> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans