From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934647AbdKPMbC (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2017 07:31:02 -0500 Received: from mail.micronovasrl.com ([212.103.203.10]:45934 "EHLO mail.micronovasrl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934236AbdKPMay (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2017 07:30:54 -0500 Authentication-Results: mail.micronovasrl.com (amavisd-new); dkim=pass reason="pass (just generated, assumed good)" header.d=micronovasrl.com Subject: Re: [linux-sunxi] Cedrus driver To: Maxime Ripard Cc: Andreas Baierl , linux-sunxi , linux@armlinux.org.uk, wens@csie.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thomas@vitsch.nl, linux-media@vger.kernel.org References: <1510059543-7064-1-git-send-email-giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com> <1b12fa21-bfe6-9ba7-ae1d-8131ac6f4668@micronovasrl.com> <6fcdc0d9-d0f8-785a-bb00-b1b41c684e59@imkreisrum.de> <693e8786-af83-9d77-0fd4-50fa1f6a135f@micronovasrl.com> <20171116110204.poakahqjz4sj7pmu@flea> From: Giulio Benetti Message-ID: <5fcf64db-c654-37d0-5863-20379c04f99c@micronovasrl.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:30:52 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171116110204.poakahqjz4sj7pmu@flea> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: it Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Il 16/11/2017 12:02, Maxime Ripard ha scritto: > Hi, > > I'm not sure why there's so many recipients (Russell, Rob or Mark have > a limited interest in this I assume), and why you're also missing some > key ones (like the v4l2 list). added in cc linux-media mailing list that appears to be the right one for v4l2 and removed Russell, Rob and Mark > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:37:30AM +0100, Giulio Benetti wrote: >> Il 16/11/2017 11:31, Andreas Baierl ha scritto: >>> Am 16.11.2017 um 11:13 schrieb Giulio Benetti: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>> Hello, >>>> I'm wondering why cedrus >>>> https://github.com/FlorentRevest/linux-sunxi-cedrus has never been >>>> merged with linux-sunxi sunxi-next. >>>> >>> Because it is not ready to be merged. It depends on the v4l2 request >>> API, which was not merged and which is re-worked atm. >>> Also, sunxi-cedrus itself is not in a finished state and is not as >>> feature-complete to be merged. Anyway it might be something for >>> staging... Has there been a [RFC] on the mailing list at all? >> >> Where can I find a list of TODOs to get it ready to be merged? > > Assuming that the request API is in, we'd need to: > - Finish the MPEG4 support > - Work on more useful codecs (H264 comes to my mind) > - Implement the DRM planes support for the custom frame format > - Implement the DRM planes support for scaling > - Test it on more SoCs > > Or something along those lines. Lot of work to do > >>>> I see it seems to be dead, no commit in 1 year. >>> >>> Yes, because the author did this during an internship, which ended ... >>> Afaik nobody picked up his work yet. > > That's not entirely true. Some work has been done by Thomas (in CC), > especially on the display engine side, but last time we talked his > work was not really upstreamable. > > We will also resume that effort starting next march. Is it possible a preview on a separate Reporitory to start working on now? Expecially to start porting everything done by FlorentRevest to mainline, admitted you've not already done. > >>>> since we need video acceleration on A20 and A33. >>>> >>> ack. >> >> By the way, when you answer to google group, is it right that all CC I >> inserted are not inserted too? >> Because this causes mess with mailing lists (seems to me). > > Yes, that's one of the many brain-damaged thing happening on that > list... Who can I ask to modify it? Most of all, is it possible? > > Maxime > -- Giulio Benetti R&D Manager & Advanced Research MICRONOVA SRL Sede: Via A. Niedda 3 - 35010 Vigonza (PD) Tel. 049/8931563 - Fax 049/8931346 Cod.Fiscale - P.IVA 02663420285 Capitale Sociale € 26.000 i.v. Iscritta al Reg. Imprese di Padova N. 02663420285 Numero R.E.A. 258642