Re: [PATCH v5 05/10] media: v4l: Add definition for the Aspeed JPEG format

From: Jammy Huang
Date: Fri Nov 26 2021 - 03:12:08 EST


Hi Sakari,

On 2021/11/23 下午 06:23, Sakari Ailus wrote:
Hi Jammy,

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:02:40AM +0800, Jammy Huang wrote:
Hi Sakari,

On 2021/11/18 下午 08:33, Sakari Ailus wrote:
Hi Jammy,

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 03:40:26PM +0800, Jammy Huang wrote:
This introduces support for the Aspeed JPEG format, where the new frame
can refer to previous frame to reduce the amount of compressed data. The
concept is similar to I/P frame of video compression. I will compare the
new frame with previous one to decide which macroblock's data is
changed, and only the changed macroblocks will be compressed.

This Aspeed JPEG format is used by the video engine on Aspeed platforms,
which is generally adapted for remote KVM.

Signed-off-by: Jammy Huang <jammy_huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v5:
- no update
v4:
- new
---
Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst
index b2cd155e691b..23c05063133d 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst
@@ -264,6 +264,18 @@ please make a proposal on the linux-media mailing list.
of tiles, resulting in 32-aligned resolutions for the luminance plane
and 16-aligned resolutions for the chrominance plane (with 2x2
subsampling).
+ * .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-AJPG:
+
+ - ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_AJPG``
+ - 'AJPG'
+ - ASPEED JPEG format used by the aspeed-video driver on Aspeed platforms,
+ which is generally adapted for remote KVM.
+ On each frame compression, I will compare the new frame with previous
+ one to decide which macroblock's data is changed, and only the changed
+ macroblocks will be compressed.
+
+ You could reference to chapter 36, Video Engine, of AST2600's datasheet
+ for more information.
Is this datasheet publicly available? Do you have a URL?
Sorry, this datasheet is not publicly available.
Hans mentioned this as well in the discussion below:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/11/10/101
If the vendor documentation is not publicly available, you'll need to have
the format documented here. Alternatively an open source implementation
(e.g. LGPL) is presumably fine, too.
Please refer to https://github.com/AspeedTech-BMC/openbmc/releases/download/v07.02/SDK_User_Guide_v07.02.pdf.
At Page 132, 'Video stream data format – ASPEED mode compression' describes the data format.
Is above information  enough??

Besides, I have already had openbmc's kvm support this aspeed format.
The source code of the implementation will be released after performance tuning finished.

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Best Regards
Jammy