linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] NVIDIA Tegra video decoder driver

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Date:   Sun, 17 Dec 2017 21:03:33 +0300
From:   Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
To:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] NVIDIA Tegra video decoder driver

On 12.12.2017 03:26, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> VDE driver provides accelerated video decoding to NVIDIA Tegra SoC's,
> it is a result of reverse-engineering efforts. Driver has been tested on
> Toshiba AC100 and Acer A500, it should work on any Tegra20 device.
> 
> In userspace this driver is utilized by libvdpau-tegra [0] that implements
> VDPAU interface, so any video player that supports VDPAU can provide
> accelerated video decoding on Tegra20 on Linux.
> 
> [0] https://github.com/grate-driver/libvdpau-tegra

Thierry, driver has been approved by media maintainers and should appear in 4.16
(it is already in -next). Please schedule the DT patches for 4.16, thanks.