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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:20:34 +0200
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
Cc: Albert Esteve <aesteve@...hat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin"
<mst@...hat.com>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>, Hans Verkuil
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<xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>, Eugenio Pérez
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] media: add virtio-media driver
Em Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:03:18 +0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> escreveu:
> Em Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:49:38 +0200
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> escreveu:
>
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > Em Tue, 27 May 2025 23:03:39 +0900
> > Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com> escreveu:
> >
> > > > > > Btw, I was looking at:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://github.com/chromeos/virtio-media
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (I'm assuming that this is the QEMU counterpart, right?)
> > > > >
> > > > > crosvm actually, but QEMU support is also being worked on.
> > > >
> > > > Do you have already QEMU patches? The best is to have the Kernel driver
> > > > submitted altogether with QEMU, as Kernel developers need it to do the
> > > > tests. In my case, I never use crosvm, and I don't have any Chromebook
> > > > anymore.
> > >
> > > IIRC Albert Esteve was working on this, maybe he can share the current status.
> >
> > Any news regards to it?
> >
> > > Note that crosvm does not require a Chromebook, you can build and run
> > > it pretty easily on a regular PC. I have put together a document to
> > > help with that:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/chromeos/virtio-media/blob/main/TRY_IT_OUT.md
> >
> > I started looking on it today. Already installed crossvm (I had to
> > install libcap-devel to build it). Still, I'm not familiar with
> > crossvm, which is a little be painful. In particular, how can I
> > enable network on it and speedup it? With suggested parameters,
> > it picked only one CPU, and very few memory on it:
> >
> > # cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep processor
> > processor : 0
> >
> > # free
> > total used free shared buff/cache available
> > Mem: 221876 34780 139712 272 56096 187096
> > Swap: 0 0 0
> >
> > I'd like to be able to compile things on it and use ssh/scp. So,
> > the VM needs more CPUs, more memory, more network and GPU.
Found how to setup cpus and memory, but didn't find a way to setup
network without running it as root. The gpu parameter has several
options. Not sure what backend works well for media apps like qv4l2,
camorama, X11, ...
> >
> > Btw, on a quick test with v4l2-compliance, something looks weird:
> > I started a camera application at the host. Still, v4l2-compliance
> > said successfully excecuted mmap:
> >
> > Streaming ioctls:
> > test read/write: OK (Not Supported)
> > test blocking wait: OK
> > test MMAP (no poll): OK
> > test MMAP (select): OK
> > Vide[2025-06-17T08:44:49.177972817+00:00 ERROR virtio_media::ioctl] VIDIOC_REQBUFS: memory type DmaBuf is currently unsupported
> > [2025-06-17T08:44:49.178164554+00:00 ERROR virtio_media::ioctl] VIDIOC_REQBUFS: memory type DmaBuf is currently unsupported
> > o Capturtest MMAP (epoll): OK
> > test USERPTR (no poll): OK (Not Supported)
> > test USERPTR (select): OK (Not Supported)
> > test DMABUF (no poll): OK (Not Supported)
> > test DMABUF (select): OK (Not Supported)
> >
> > Which doesn't make any sense, as the host OS should not allow access
> > to mmap while streaming.
>
> Ah, this was with the "simple" device, not with the proxy one.
> With the proxy one, I'm getting:
>
> # v4l2-ctl --all
> Driver Info:
> Driver name : virtio-media
> Card type : usb video: usb video
> Bus info : platform:virtio-media
> Driver version : 6.15.0
> Capabilities : 0x84200001
> Video Capture
> Streaming
> Extended Pix Format
> Device Capabilities
> Device Caps : 0x04200001
> Video Capture
> Streaming
> Extended Pix Format
> Priority: 2
> Video input : 0 (Camera 1: ok)
> Format Video Capture:
> Width/Height : 1280/720
> Pixel Format : 'MJPG' (Motion-JPEG)
> Field : None
> Bytes per Line : 0
> Size Image : 1843200
> Colorspace : sRGB
> Transfer Function : Rec. 709
> YCbCr/HSV Encoding: ITU-R 601
> Quantization : Default (maps to Full Range)
> Flags :
> Crop Capability Video Capture:
> Bounds : Left 0, Top 0, Width 1280, Height 720
> Default : Left 0, Top 0, Width 1280, Height 720
> Pixel Aspect: 1/1
> Selection Video Capture: crop_default, Left 0, Top 0, Width 1280, Height 720, Flags:
> Selection Video Capture: crop_bounds, Left 0, Top 0, Width 1280, Height 720, Flags:
> Streaming Parameters Video Capture:
> Capabilities : timeperframe
> Frames per second: 30.000 (30/1)
> Read buffers : 0
>
> User Controls
>
> brightness 0x00980900 (int) : min=-128 max=127 step=1 default=-11 value=-11
> contrast 0x00980901 (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=148 value=148
> saturation 0x00980902 (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=180 value=180
> hue 0x00980903 (int) : min=-128 max=127 step=1 default=0 value=0
>
> # v4l2-compliance -d0 -s
>
> Streaming ioctls:
> test read/write: OK (Not Supported)
> test blocking wait: OK
> fail: v4l2-test-buffers.cpp(1345): node->streamon(q.g_type()) != EINVAL
> test MMAP (no poll): FAIL
> fail: v4l2-test-buffers.cpp(1345): node->streamon(q.g_type()) != EINVAL
> test MMAP (select): FAIL
> fail: v4l2-test-buffers.cpp(1345): node->streamon(q.g_type()) != EINVAL
> test MMAP (epoll): FAIL
> test USERPTR (no poll): OK (Not Supported)
> test USERPTR (select): OK (Not Supported)
> [2025-06-17T08:55:20.768760714+00:00 ERROR virtio_media::ioctl] VIDIOC_REQBUFS: memory type DmaBuf is currently unsupported
> test DMABUF (no poll): OK (Not Supported)
> [2025-06-17T08:55:20.769745707+00:00 ERROR virtio_media::ioctl] VIDIOC_REQBUFS: memory type DmaBuf is currently unsupported
> test DMABUF (select): OK (Not Supported)
>
> At the host, I'm getting:
>
> Streaming ioctls:
> test read/write: OK (Not Supported)
> test blocking wait: OK
> fail: ../utils/v4l2-compliance/v4l2-test-buffers.cpp(1346): node->streamon(q.g_type()) != EINVAL
> test MMAP (no poll): FAIL
> fail: ../utils/v4l2-compliance/v4l2-test-buffers.cpp(1346): node->streamon(q.g_type()) != EINVAL
> test MMAP (select): FAIL
> fail: ../utils/v4l2-compliance/v4l2-test-buffers.cpp(1346): node->streamon(q.g_type()) != EINVAL
> test MMAP (epoll): FAIL
> test USERPTR (no poll): OK
> test USERPTR (select): OK
> test DMABUF: Cannot test, specify --expbuf-device
>
> The device I'm using for test is a UVC HDMI capture board:
>
> Bus 005 Device 008: ID 534d:2109 MacroSilicon usb video
>
> Thanks,
> Mauro
Thanks,
Mauro
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