On 07/01/2016 01:53 PM, andrew-ct chen wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 12:11 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> On 06/16/2016 12:54 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>> Em Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:08:08 +0800
>>> tiffany lin <tiffany....@mediatek.com> escreveu:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mauro,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 07:13 +0900, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 06/07/2016 11:22 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>>>>> Em Mon, 30 May 2016 20:29:14 +0800
>>>>>> Tiffany Lin <tiffany....@mediatek.com> escreveu:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ==============
>>>>>>> Introduction
>>>>>>> ==============
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The purpose of this series is to add the driver for video codec hw
>>>>>>> embedded in the Mediatek's MT8173 SoCs.
>>>>>>> Mediatek Video Codec is able to handle video decoding of in a range of
>>>>>>> formats.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This patch series add Mediatek block format V4L2_PIX_FMT_MT21, the
>>>>>>> decoder driver will decoded bitstream to
>>>>>>> V4L2_PIX_FMT_MT21 format.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This patch series rely on MTK VPU driver in patch series "Add MT8173
>>>>>>> Video Encoder Driver and VPU Driver"[1]
>>>>>>> and patch "CHROMIUM: v4l: Add V4L2_PIX_FMT_VP9 definition"[2] for VP9
>>>>>>> support.
>>>>>>> Mediatek Video Decoder driver rely on VPU driver to load, communicate
>>>>>>> with VPU.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Internally the driver uses videobuf2 framework and MTK IOMMU and MTK
>>>>>>> SMI both have been merged in v4.6-rc1.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1]https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/33734/
>>>>>>> [2]https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/245241/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmm... I'm not seeing the firmware for this driver at the
>>>>>> linux-firmware tree:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/log/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nor I'm seeing any pull request for them. Did you send it?
>>>>>> I'll only merge the driver upstream after seeing such pull request.
>>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I am not familiar with how to upstream firmware.
>>>> Do you mean we need to upstream vpu firmware first before merge encoder
>>>> driver upstream?
>>>
>>> Please look at this page:
>>>
>>> https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Development:_How_to_submit_patches#Firmware_submission
>>>
>>> The information here can also be useful:
>>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/readme/firmware-README.AddingFirmware
>>>
>>> In summary, you need to provide redistribution rights for the
>>> firmware blob. You can either submit it to me or directly to
>>> linux-firmware. In the latter, please c/c me on such patch.
>>
>> Tiffany, what is the status of the firmware submission?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>
> Hi Hans,
> We are working on firmware test to make sure that both decoder and
> encoder work well. Hopes it can be ready (firmware submission) on July 4
> or July 5.
OK, great! Just wanted to make sure that this work was progressing and not
stalled.
Thanks!
Hans
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