On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 09:34:20AM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > This introduces the 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. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski Acked-by: Maxime Ripard Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com