On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 02:11:34PM -0400, Bryan Steele wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 07:35:47PM +0200, Luca De Pandis wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I'm Luca De Pandis and I'm an OpenBSD user since March.
> > 
> > I'd like to contribute to the project since I'm using it everyday, so I
> > decided to work on porting the VAAPI stack on OpenBSD.
> > 
> > Before submitting I checked with portcheck and make
> > ports-lib-depends-check for errors or things I could improve to make the
> > ports as compliant as possible. Still, as they are my first attempt to
> > port something I'd like to receive your feedbacks about them.
> > 
> > Since I need for VAAPI to get hw acceleration on mpv I wouldn't mind to
> > step up as a maintainer for these ports.
> > 
> > Also, I wrote some patches, but I'm not as proficient in C as I would. So
> > I'm counting on your feedbacks if there are some things I could do
> > better in that regard as well.
> > 
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Luca De Pandis
> 
> Hi Luca,
> 
> This has come up before last year [0], and the conclusion was that this
> needed to be a part of xenocara [1] as Mesa needs to be compiled with
> '--enable-va' to have working r600/radeonsi gallium drivers [2].

It also required backporting patches
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157992039615241&w=2

The autotools build is going away with the pending Mesa 20.1 update.
People should not be looking at changing Mesa 19.2 at this point.

> 
> The original work was done by Brad DeMorrow and Jonathan Gray had
> picked it up after that, not sure what the status is now. I had it
> working on my Radeon HD 7450 along with a modified ffmpeg port with
> Brad's original ports and recompiled Mesa.
> 
> Having support for video encode/decode offloading would be nice,
> especially on lower power CPUs.
> 
> -Bryan.
> 
> [0] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=157626463822587&w=2
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157676527322944&w=2
> [2] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=157638698722892&w=2
> 
> 

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