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Message-Id: <89e848d2-8155-85be-18a8-11da4614c6c2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:09:14 -0500
From: Eddie James <eajames@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@....com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, andrew@...id.au,
openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, robh+dt@...nel.org, mchehab@...nel.org,
linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] media: platform: Add Aspeed Video Engine Driver
On 09/28/2018 06:45 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hi Eddie,
>
> On 09/25/2018 09:27 PM, Eddie James wrote:
>> The Video Engine (VE) embedded in the Aspeed AST2400 and AST2500 SOCs
>> can capture and compress video data from digital or analog sources. With
>> the Aspeed chip acting as a service processor, the Video Engine can
>> capture the host processor graphics output.
>>
>> This series adds a V4L2 driver for the VE, providing the usual V4L2 streaming
>> interface by way of videobuf2. Each frame, the driver triggers the hardware to
>> capture the host graphics output and compress it to JPEG format.
> This is starting to look really nice. Are the performance issues you had originally
> with the streaming API now solved?
Yes, I haven't had the time to properly benchmark it now, but it is at
least as responsive as before, and using less memory now, so we're happy
with it :)
>
> I reviewed patch 2/2 and I think it is best if you incorporate my comments and post
> a v4. At that point I will take a closer look at the DV_TIMINGS implementation in the
> driver, esp. enum_dv_timings and dv_timings_cap.
>
> In any case, I am much happier about this v3, this was a big step forward.
Thanks! I will address your comments for v4.
Thanks for the detailed review!
Eddie
>
> Thank you for all your work!
>
> Hans
>
>> I was unable to cross compile v4l2-compliance for ARM with our OpenBMC
>> toolchain. Although bootstrap, configure, and make were successful, no binaries
>> were generated... I was able to build v4l-utils 1.12.3 from the OpenEmbedded
>> project, with the output below:
>>
>> v4l2-compliance SHA : not available
>>
>> Driver Info:
>> Driver name : aspeed-video
>> Card type : Aspeed Video Engine
>> Bus info : platform:aspeed-video
>> Driver version: 4.18.8
>> Capabilities : 0x85200001
>> Video Capture
>> Read/Write
>> Streaming
>> Extended Pix Format
>> Device Capabilities
>> Device Caps : 0x05200001
>> Video Capture
>> Read/Write
>> Streaming
>> Extended Pix Format
>>
>> Compliance test for device /dev/video0 (not using libv4l2):
>>
>> Required ioctls:
>> test VIDIOC_QUERYCAP: OK
>>
>> Allow for multiple opens:
>> test second video open: OK
>> test VIDIOC_QUERYCAP: OK
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_PRIORITY: OK
>> test for unlimited opens: OK
>>
>> Debug ioctls:
>> test VIDIOC_DBG_G/S_REGISTER: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS: OK (Not Supported)
>>
>> Input ioctls:
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_TUNER/ENUM_FREQ_BANDS: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_FREQUENCY: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_S_HW_FREQ_SEEK: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMINPUT: OK
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_AUDIO: OK (Not Supported)
>> Inputs: 1 Audio Inputs: 0 Tuners: 0
>>
>> Output ioctls:
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_MODULATOR: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_FREQUENCY: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_ENUMAUDOUT: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMOUTPUT: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_AUDOUT: OK (Not Supported)
>> Outputs: 0 Audio Outputs: 0 Modulators: 0
>>
>> Input/Output configuration ioctls:
>> test VIDIOC_ENUM/G/S/QUERY_STD: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_ENUM/G/S/QUERY_DV_TIMINGS: OK
>> test VIDIOC_DV_TIMINGS_CAP: OK
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_EDID: OK
>>
>> Test input 0:
>>
>> Control ioctls:
>> test VIDIOC_QUERY_EXT_CTRL/QUERYMENU: OK
>> test VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL: OK
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_CTRL: OK
>> test VIDIOC_G/S/TRY_EXT_CTRLS: OK
>> warn: ../../../v4l-utils-1.12.3/utils/v4l2-compliance/v4l2-test-controls.cpp(811): V4L2_CID_DV_RX_POWER_PRESENT not found for input 0
>> test VIDIOC_(UN)SUBSCRIBE_EVENT/DQEVENT: OK
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_JPEGCOMP: OK (Not Supported)
>> Standard Controls: 3 Private Controls: 0
>>
>> Format ioctls:
>> test VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT/FRAMESIZES/FRAMEINTERVALS: OK
>> test VIDIOC_G/S_PARM: OK
>> test VIDIOC_G_FBUF: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_G_FMT: OK
>> test VIDIOC_TRY_FMT: OK
>> test VIDIOC_S_FMT: OK
>> test VIDIOC_G_SLICED_VBI_CAP: OK (Not Supported)
>> test Cropping: OK (Not Supported)
>> test Composing: OK (Not Supported)
>> test Scaling: OK (Not Supported)
>>
>> Codec ioctls:
>> test VIDIOC_(TRY_)ENCODER_CMD: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_G_ENC_INDEX: OK (Not Supported)
>> test VIDIOC_(TRY_)DECODER_CMD: OK (Not Supported)
>>
>> Buffer ioctls:
>> test VIDIOC_REQBUFS/CREATE_BUFS/QUERYBUF: OK
>> test VIDIOC_EXPBUF: OK (Not Supported)
>>
>> Test input 0:
>>
>> Streaming ioctls:
>> test read/write: OK
>> test MMAP: OK
>> test USERPTR: OK (Not Supported)
>> test DMABUF: OK (Not Supported)
>>
>>
>> Total: 47, Succeeded: 47, Failed: 0, Warnings: 1
>>
>> Changes since v2:
>> - Switch to streaming interface. This involved a lot of changes.
>> - Rework memory allocation due to using videobuf2 buffers, but also only
>> allocate the necessary size of source buffer rather than the max size
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>> - Removed le32_to_cpu calls for JPEG header data
>> - Reworked v4l2 ioctls to be compliant.
>> - Added JPEG controls
>> - Updated devicetree docs according to Rob's suggestions.
>> - Added myself to MAINTAINERS
>>
>> Eddie James (2):
>> dt-bindings: media: Add Aspeed Video Engine binding documentation
>> media: platform: Add Aspeed Video Engine driver
>>
>> .../devicetree/bindings/media/aspeed-video.txt | 26 +
>> MAINTAINERS | 8 +
>> drivers/media/platform/Kconfig | 8 +
>> drivers/media/platform/Makefile | 1 +
>> drivers/media/platform/aspeed-video.c | 1645 ++++++++++++++++++++
>> 5 files changed, 1688 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/aspeed-video.txt
>> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/aspeed-video.c
>>
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