Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] media: platform: Add Sunxi-Cedrus VPU decoder driver

From: Sakari Ailus
Date: Tue Apr 24 2018 - 05:13:44 EST


Hi Paul

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 05:45:33PM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> This introduces the Sunxi-Cedrus VPU driver that supports the VPU found
> in Allwinner SoCs, also known as Video Engine. It is implemented through
> a v4l2 m2m decoder device and a media device (used for media requests).
> So far, it only supports MPEG2 decoding.
>
> Since this VPU is stateless, synchronization with media requests is
> required in order to ensure consistency between frame headers that
> contain metadata about the frame to process and the raw slice data that
> is used to generate the frame.
>
> This driver was made possible thanks to the long-standing effort
> carried out by the linux-sunxi community in the interest of reverse
> engineering, documenting and implementing support for Allwinner VPU.

No code review yet, but DT bindings precede the driver. Please also add
the appropriate MAINTAINERS entries.

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