[RFC 0/5] Split iMX8MQ Hantro VPU into G1 and G2 with blk-ctrl support
Adam Ford
aford173 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 14:30:25 PST 2021
On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 2:51 PM Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas at ndufresne.ca> wrote:
>
> Le dimanche 05 décembre 2021 à 13:51 -0600, Adam Ford a écrit :
> > On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 12:16 PM Adam Ford <aford173 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Currently, the VPU in the i.MQ8MQ is appearing as one codec, but in reality, it's
> > > two IP blocks called G1 and G2. There is initialization code in VPU code to
> > > pull some clocks, resets and other features which has been integrated into
> > > the vpu-blk-ctrl for the i.MX8M Mini and a similar method can be used to make
> > > the VPU codec's operate as stand-alone cores without having to know the details
> > > of each other or the quirks unique to the i.MX8MQ, so the remaining code can be
> > > left more generic.
> > >
> > > This series was started by Lucas Stach, and picked up by me so some patches have
> > > his s-o-b and mine where I might have changed a few minor items. It's in an RFC state
> > > because the G2 VP9 operations appear to hang, but the parent code from which I started doesn't
> > > appear to show VP9 support, and it looks like it should.
> > >
> > > since the g-streamer and media trees are in a constant state of change, this series is based on
> > > git://linuxtv.org/hverkuil/media_tree.git for-v5.17e
> > >
> >
> > I forgot to post Fluster results.
> >
> > Before the patches to this branch:
> >
> > 2gst-main] root at localhost:~/gstreamer/fluster# ./fluster.py list -c |grep -i v4l
> >
> > GStreamer-H.264-V4L2-Gst1.0: GStreamer H.264 V4L2 decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> > GStreamer-H.264-V4L2SL-Gst1.0: GStreamer H.264 V4L2SL decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ✔️
> > GStreamer-H.265-V4L2-Gst1.0: GStreamer H.265 V4L2 decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> > GStreamer-H.265-V4L2SL-Gst1.0: GStreamer H.265 V4L2SL decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> > GStreamer-VP8-V4L2-Gst1.0: GStreamer VP8 V4L2 decoder for GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> > GStreamer-VP8-V4L2SL-Gst1.0: GStreamer VP8 V4L2SL decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ✔️
> > GStreamer-VP9-V4L2SL-Gst1.0: GStreamer VP9 V4L2SL decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> > GStreamer-AV1-V4L2SL-Gst1.0: GStreamer AV1 V4L2SL decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> > [gst-main] root at localhost:~/gstreamer/fluster#
> >
> > There was no VP9 support.
> >
> > ./fluster.py run -dGStreamer-H.264-V4L2SL-Gst1.0
> > GStreamer-H.264-V4L2SL-Gst1.0
> > Ran 90/135 tests successfully in 58.787 secs
> >
> > AFTER this series, two decoders appear:
> >
> > [ 15.919137] hantro-vpu 38300000.video-codec: registered
> > nxp,imx8mq-vpu-g1-dec as /dev/video0
> > [ 15.983579] hantro-vpu 38310000.video-codec: registered
> > nxp,imx8mq-vpu-g2-dec as /dev/video1
> >
> > VP9 was listed:
> >
> > GStreamer-H.264-V4L2-Gst1.0: GStreamer H.264 V4L2 decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> > GStreamer-H.264-V4L2SL-Gst1.0: GStreamer H.264 V4L2SL decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ✔️
> > GStreamer-H.265-V4L2-Gst1.0: GStreamer H.265 V4L2 decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> > GStreamer-H.265-V4L2SL-Gst1.0: GStreamer H.265 V4L2SL decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> > GStreamer-VP8-V4L2-Gst1.0: GStreamer VP8 V4L2 decoder for GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> > GStreamer-VP8-V4L2SL-Gst1.0: GStreamer VP8 V4L2SL decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ✔️
> > GStreamer-VP9-V4L2SL-Gst1.0: GStreamer VP9 V4L2SL decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ✔️
> > GStreamer-AV1-V4L2SL-Gst1.0: GStreamer AV1 V4L2SL decoder for
> > GStreamer 1.0... ❌
> >
> > ./fluster.py run -d GStreamer-VP8-V4L2SL-Gst1.0
> > Ran 55/61 tests successfully in 8.565 secs
> >
> >
> > ./fluster.py run -dGStreamer-H.264-V4L2SL-Gst1.0
> > Ran 90/135 tests successfully in 60.269 secs
> >
> > Same results for H.264
> >
> > VP9 Hangs, where it didn't even appear as available before:
> >
> > ./fluster.py run -d GStreamer-VP9-V4L2SL-Gst1.0
> > ****************************************************************************************************
> > Running test suite VP9-TEST-VECTORS with decoder GStreamer-VP9-V4L2SL-Gst1.0
> > Using 4 parallel job(s)
> > ****************************************************************************************************
> >
> > [TEST SUITE ] (DECODER ) TEST VECTOR
> > ... RESULT
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > [VP9-TEST-VECTORS] (GStreamer-VP9-V4L2SL-Gst1.0)
> > vp90-2-00-quantizer-00.webm ... Success
> > [VP9-TEST-VECTORS] (GStreamer-VP9-V4L2SL-Gst1.0)
> > vp90-2-00-quantizer-01.webm ... Success
> > [VP9-TEST-VECTORS] (GStreamer-VP9-V4L2SL-Gst1.0)
> > vp90-2-00-quantizer-02.webm ... Succes
> >
> > <hang > - and yes, 'Success' didnt' finish writing to the serial port.
>
> Looks like hope to me ! Do you get further with -j 1 (one concurrent decode) ?
Anything after the first attempt appears to fail. I haven't figured
out if it's the G2 code or the power domain stuff. Since VP9 didn't
work I migrated it to use the vpu-blk-ctrl, I can't really compare to
know if it was a regression or an improvement.
:-)
adam
>
> >
> >
> >
> > > Adam Ford (2):
> > > media: hantro: split i.MX8MQ G1 and G2 code
> > > arm64: dts: imx8mq: Split i.MX8MQ G1 and G2 with vpu-blk-ctrl
> > >
> > > Lucas Stach (3):
> > > dt-bindings: power: imx8mq: add defines for VPU blk-ctrl domains
> > > dt-bindings: soc: add binding for i.MX8MQ VPU blk-ctrl
> > > soc: imx: imx8m-blk-ctrl: add i.MX8MQ VPU blk-ctrl
> > >
> > > .../soc/imx/fsl,imx8mq-vpu-blk-ctrl.yaml | 71 +++++++++++
> > > arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mq.dtsi | 69 ++++++----
> > > drivers/soc/imx/imx8m-blk-ctrl.c | 67 ++++++++++
> > > drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c | 4 +-
> > > drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_hw.h | 2 +-
> > > drivers/staging/media/hantro/imx8m_vpu_hw.c | 119 +++---------------
> > > include/dt-bindings/power/imx8mq-power.h | 3 +
> > > 7 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)
> > > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/imx/fsl,imx8mq-vpu-blk-ctrl.yaml
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.32.0
> > >
>
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