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

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Message-ID: <20180424091328.jsqp36nxekuj23am@paasikivi.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:13:28 +0300
From:   Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@...tlin.com>
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, Pawel Osciak <pawel@...iak.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
        Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...omium.org>,
        Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] media: platform: Add Sunxi-Cedrus VPU decoder
 driver

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.

-- 
Sakari Ailus
sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com