Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Add MT8173 Video Decoder Driver

From	Wu-Cheng Li (李務誠) <wuchengli@chromium.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Add MT8173 Video Decoder Driver
Date	2016-07-01 12:50 +0200
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+Andrew. Last I heard the license was ready and Andrew was preparing
the VPU firmware. Andrew. Is the firmware ready to submit?

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 06/16/2016 12:54 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Em Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:08:08 +0800
>> tiffany lin <tiffany.lin@mediatek.com> escreveu:
>>
>>> Hi Mauro,
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 07:13 +0900, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 06/07/2016 11:22 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>>>> Em Mon, 30 May 2016 20:29:14 +0800
>>>>> Tiffany Lin <tiffany.lin@mediatek.com> escreveu:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ==============
>>>>>>   Introduction
>>>>>> ==============
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The purpose of this series is to add the driver for video codec hw embedded in the Mediatek's MT8173 SoCs.
>>>>>> Mediatek Video Codec is able to handle video decoding of in a range of formats.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This patch series add Mediatek block format V4L2_PIX_FMT_MT21, the decoder driver will decoded bitstream to
>>>>>> V4L2_PIX_FMT_MT21 format.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This patch series rely on MTK VPU driver in patch series "Add MT8173 Video Encoder Driver and VPU Driver"[1]
>>>>>> and patch "CHROMIUM: v4l: Add V4L2_PIX_FMT_VP9 definition"[2] for VP9 support.
>>>>>> Mediatek Video Decoder driver rely on VPU driver to load, communicate with VPU.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Internally the driver uses videobuf2 framework and MTK IOMMU and MTK SMI both have been merged in v4.6-rc1.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/33734/
>>>>>> [2]https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/245241/
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm... I'm not seeing the firmware for this driver at the
>>>>> linux-firmware tree:
>>>>>    https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/log/
>>>>>
>>>>> Nor I'm seeing any pull request for them. Did you send it?
>>>>> I'll only merge the driver upstream after seeing such pull request.
>>>>
>>> Sorry, I am not familiar with how to upstream firmware.
>>> Do you mean we need to upstream vpu firmware first before merge encoder
>>> driver upstream?
>>
>> Please look at this page:
>>       https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Development:_How_to_submit_patches#Firmware_submission
>>
>> The information here can also be useful:
>>       https://www.kernel.org/doc/readme/firmware-README.AddingFirmware
>>
>> In summary, you need to provide redistribution rights for the
>> firmware blob. You can either submit it to me or directly to
>> linux-firmware. In the latter, please c/c me on such patch.
>
> Tiffany, what is the status of the firmware submission?
>
> Regards,
>
>         Hans
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Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Add MT8173 Video Decoder Driver Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2016-07-01 12:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Add MT8173 Video Decoder Driver Wu-Cheng Li (李務誠)   <wuchengli@chromium.org> - 2016-07-01 12:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Add MT8173 Video Decoder Driver andrew-ct chen <andrew-ct.chen@mediatek.com> - 2016-07-01 14:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Add MT8173 Video Decoder Driver Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2016-07-01 14:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Add MT8173 Video Decoder Driver andrew-ct chen <andrew-ct.chen@mediatek.com> - 2016-07-04 13:10 +0200

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