On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 11:30:20AM +0000, Brian Starkey wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:25:03AM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> >This introduces a dedicated ioctl for allocating buffers for the VPU
> >tiling mode. It allows setting up buffers that comply to the hardware
> >alignment requirements, by aligning the stride and height to 32 bytes.
> >
> >Only YUV semiplanar and planar formats are allowed by the ioctl, as the
> >hardware does not support the tiling mode for other formats.
> 
> What's the general feeling about a more generic version of this ioctl?
> There doesn't seem to be anything Allwinner-specific in the ioctl
> arguments.

I'm definitely in favor of having such an ioctl.

maxime

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