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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom Valkyrie driver
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:14:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1WBkmXbJx=rZMumxn7EN4bmA1AdZEgrWBVyQ3XNngU6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190822192451.5983-7-scott.branden@broadcom.com>

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 9:25 PM Scott Branden
<scott.branden@broadcom.com> wrote:
>
> Add Broadcom Valkyrie driver offload engine.
> This driver interfaces to the Valkyrie PCIe offload engine to perform
> should offload functions as video transcoding on multiple streams
> in parallel.  Valkyrie device is booted from files loaded using
> request_firmware_into_buf mechanism.  After booted card status is updated
> and messages can then be sent to the card.
> Such messages contain scatter gather list of addresses
> to pull data from the host to perform operations on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Desmond Yan <desmond.yan@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Hu <james.hu@broadcom.com>

Can you explain the decision to make this is a standalone misc driver
rather than hooking into the existing framework in drivers/media?

There is an existing interface that looks like it could fit the hardware
in include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h. Have you considered using that?

There is also support for video transcoding using GPUs in
driver/gpu/drm/, that could also be used in theory, though it sounds
like a less optimal fit.

      Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-27 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-22 19:24 [PATCH 0/7] firmware: add partial read support in request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] fs: introduce kernel_pread_file* support Scott Branden
2019-08-23 12:29   ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-23 19:55     ` Scott Branden
2019-08-23 21:29       ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2019-08-22 19:47   ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-08-22 20:07     ` Scott Branden
2019-08-22 21:12       ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-08-22 23:30         ` Scott Branden
2019-08-23 15:47           ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-08-23 20:16             ` Scott Branden
2019-08-23 10:05   ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-23 19:44     ` Scott Branden
2019-08-26 15:20       ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-26 15:41         ` Scott Branden
2019-08-26 15:57           ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-26 17:12           ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-26 17:24             ` Scott Branden
2019-08-27 10:40               ` Takashi Iwai
2019-10-11 13:31                 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-02-21  0:11                   ` Scott Branden
2020-02-21  8:44                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-02-21 18:23                       ` Scott Branden
2020-02-21 23:37                       ` Scott Branden
2020-02-22  8:06                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 3/7] test_firmware: add partial read support for request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 4/7] selftests: firmware: Test partial file reads of request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 5/7] bcm-vk: add bcm_vk UAPI Scott Branden
2019-08-27 13:54   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-27 14:49   ` Kieran Bingham
2019-10-08 15:59     ` Olof Johansson
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom Valkyrie driver Scott Branden
2019-08-27 14:14   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2019-08-27 15:25     ` Nicolas Dufresne
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 7/7] MAINTAINERS: bcm-vk: Add maintainer for Broadcom Valkyrie Driver Scott Branden

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