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From: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@linaro.org>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] v4l: Add Qualcomm custom compressed pixel formats
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 16:29:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a8a3b86-0c0a-f190-b6e7-d83d7d6b6433@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b58061ff-aeb1-c48b-ea53-2366997bd825@xs4all.nl>



On 6/2/21 12:56 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 29/04/2021 12:58, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
>> Here we add custom Qualcomm raw compressed pixel formats. They are
>> used in Qualcomm SoCs to optimaize the interconnect bandwidth.
> 
> optimize
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  .../userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst      | 12 ++++++++++++
>>  drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c                 |  2 ++
>>  include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h                       |  2 ++
>>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst
>> index 0b879c0da713..30b9cef4cbf0 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-reserved.rst
>> @@ -260,6 +260,18 @@ please make a proposal on the linux-media mailing list.
>>  	of tiles, resulting in 32-aligned resolutions for the luminance plane
>>  	and 16-aligned resolutions for the chrominance plane (with 2x2
>>  	subsampling).
>> +    * .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-QC8C:
>> +
>> +      - ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_QC8C``
>> +      - 'QC8C'
>> +      - Compressed Macro-tile 8Bit YUV420 format used by Qualcomm platforms.
> 
> 8Bit -> 8-bit
> 
>> +	The compression is lossless. It contains four planes.
>> +    * .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-QC10C:
>> +
>> +      - ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_QC10C``
>> +      - 'QC10C'
>> +      - Compressed Macro-tile 10Bit YUV420 format used by Qualcomm platforms.
> 
> 10Bit -> 10-bit
> 
>> +	The compression is lossless. It contains four planes.
> 
> What is not clear from this description is if these formats are opaque, i.e. the
> only way to decompress is through hardware, or if they can be decompressed in
> software. If so, a reference to Qualcomm documentation would be useful. See e.g.
> the V4L2_PIX_FMT_MT21C description (that's an opaque format).

Yes, the formats are opaque and can be decompressed by hardware blocks
only. I'll clear that in v2. Thanks for the review.

-- 
regards,
Stan

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-02 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-29 10:58 [PATCH 0/3] Qualcomm custom compressed pixfmt Stanimir Varbanov
2021-04-29 10:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] v4l: Add Qualcomm custom compressed pixel formats Stanimir Varbanov
2021-04-29 19:10   ` Nicolas Dufresne
2021-05-17 15:13     ` Stanimir Varbanov
2021-06-02  9:56   ` Hans Verkuil
2021-06-02 13:29     ` Stanimir Varbanov [this message]
2021-04-29 10:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] venus: Add a handling of QC8C compressed format Stanimir Varbanov
2021-06-02  9:59   ` Hans Verkuil
2021-04-29 10:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] venus: Add a handling of QC10C " Stanimir Varbanov
2021-06-02 10:01   ` Hans Verkuil
2021-06-02 13:30     ` Stanimir Varbanov

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