RE: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-03-01 Thread Edward Hervey
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 09:50 +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote: Hello, [...] I'm not sure that highmem is the right solution. First, this will force systems with rather small amount of memory (like 256M) to use highmem just to support DMA allocable memory. It also doesn't solve the issue with

RE: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-03-01 Thread Marek Szyprowski
Hello, On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:26 AM Edward Hervey wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 09:50 +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote: Hello, [...] I'm not sure that highmem is the right solution. First, this will force systems with rather small amount of memory (like 256M) to use highmem just

RE: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-28 Thread Marek Szyprowski
Hello, On Saturday, February 26, 2011 8:20 PM Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Kyungmin Park wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Linus Walleij linus.wall...@linaro.org wrote: 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey bilb...@gmail.com:  What *needs* to be solved is an API for data

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-28 Thread Laurent Pinchart
On Saturday 26 February 2011 13:12:42 Hans Verkuil wrote: On Friday, February 25, 2011 18:22:51 Linus Walleij wrote: 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey bilb...@gmail.com: What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing at the kernel level which v4l2,omx,X,GL,vdpau,vaapi,... can

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-28 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Sunday, February 27, 2011 20:49:37 Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2011, Edward Hervey wrote: Are there any gstreamer/linaro/etc core developers attending the ELC in San Francisco in April? I think it might be useful to get together before, during or after the

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-28 Thread Laurent Pinchart
On Sunday 27 February 2011 20:49:37 Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2011, Edward Hervey wrote: Are there any gstreamer/linaro/etc core developers attending the ELC in San Francisco in April? I think it might be useful to get together before, during or after the conference

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-28 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Monday, February 28, 2011 11:11:47 Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2011 13:12:42 Hans Verkuil wrote: On Friday, February 25, 2011 18:22:51 Linus Walleij wrote: 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey bilb...@gmail.com: What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-28 Thread Laurent Pinchart
On Monday 28 February 2011 11:21:52 Hans Verkuil wrote: On Monday, February 28, 2011 11:11:47 Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2011 13:12:42 Hans Verkuil wrote: On Friday, February 25, 2011 18:22:51 Linus Walleij wrote: 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey bilb...@gmail.com: What

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-27 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 26 February 2011, Edward Hervey wrote: Are there any gstreamer/linaro/etc core developers attending the ELC in San Francisco in April? I think it might be useful to get together before, during or after the conference and see if we can turn this discussion in something

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-26 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Friday, February 25, 2011 18:22:51 Linus Walleij wrote: 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey bilb...@gmail.com: What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing at the kernel level which v4l2,omx,X,GL,vdpau,vaapi,... can use and that userspace (like GStreamer) can pass around,

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-26 Thread Felipe Contreras
Hi, On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Robert Fekete robert.fek...@linaro.org wrote: To make a long story short: Different vendors provide custom OpenMax solutions for say Camera/ISP. In the Linux eco-system there is V4L2 doing much of this work already and is evolving with mediacontroller as

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-26 Thread Felipe Contreras
Hi, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Hans Verkuil hverk...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Thursday, February 24, 2011 13:29:56 Linus Walleij wrote: 2011/2/23 Sachin Gupta sachin.gu...@linaro.org: The imaging coprocessor in today's platforms have a general purpose DSP attached to it I have seen some

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-26 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com wrote: Perhaps GStreamer experts would like to comment on the future plans ahead for zero copying/IPC and low power HW use cases? Could Gstreamer adapt some ideas from OMX IL making OMX IL obsolete? perhaps

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-26 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Saturday, February 26, 2011 14:38:50 Felipe Contreras wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com wrote: Perhaps GStreamer experts would like to comment on the future plans ahead for zero copying/IPC and low power HW use cases? Could

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-26 Thread Kyungmin Park
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Linus Walleij linus.wall...@linaro.org wrote: 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey bilb...@gmail.com:  What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing at the kernel level which v4l2,omx,X,GL,vdpau,vaapi,... can use and that userspace (like GStreamer) can

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-26 Thread Edward Hervey
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 14:47 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: On Saturday, February 26, 2011 14:38:50 Felipe Contreras wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com wrote: Perhaps GStreamer experts would like to comment on the future plans ahead

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-26 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Kyungmin Park wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Linus Walleij linus.wall...@linaro.org wrote: 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey bilb...@gmail.com:  What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing at the kernel level which v4l2,omx,X,GL,vdpau,vaapi,...

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-25 Thread Linus Walleij
2011/2/24 Edward Hervey bilb...@gmail.com:  What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing at the kernel level which v4l2,omx,X,GL,vdpau,vaapi,... can use and that userspace (like GStreamer) can pass around, monitor and know about. I think the patches sent out from

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-24 Thread Linus Walleij
2011/2/23 Sachin Gupta sachin.gu...@linaro.org: The imaging coprocessor in today's platforms have a general purpose DSP attached to it I have seen some work being done to use this DSP for graphics/audio processing in case the camera use case is not being tried or also if the camera usecases

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-24 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 03:44:19 Clark, Rob wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Robert Fekete robert.fek...@linaro.org wrote: Hi, In order to expand this knowledge outside of Linaro I took the Liberty of inviting both linux-media@vger.kernel.org and

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-24 Thread Laurent Pinchart
On Tuesday 22 February 2011 03:44:19 Clark, Rob wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Robert Fekete wrote: In order to expand this knowledge outside of Linaro I took the Liberty of inviting both linux-media@vger.kernel.org and gstreamer-de...@lists.freedesktop.org. For any newcomer I

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-24 Thread Laurent Pinchart
On Thursday 24 February 2011 14:17:12 Hans Verkuil wrote: On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 03:44:19 Clark, Rob wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Robert Fekete wrote: Hi, In order to expand this knowledge outside of Linaro I took the Liberty of inviting both

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-24 Thread Kyungmin Park
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Hans Verkuil hverk...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 03:44:19 Clark, Rob wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Robert Fekete robert.fek...@linaro.org wrote: Hi, In order to expand this knowledge outside of Linaro I took the Liberty of

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-24 Thread Edward Hervey
Hi, On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 17:39 +0100, Robert Fekete wrote: Hi, In order to expand this knowledge outside of Linaro I took the Liberty of inviting both linux-media@vger.kernel.org and gstreamer-de...@lists.freedesktop.org. For any newcomer I really recommend to do some catch-up reading on

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-24 Thread Edward Hervey
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 21:19 +0100, Edward Hervey wrote: Will GStreamer be as cpu/memory efficient as a pure OMX solution ? No, I seriously doubt we'll break down all the fundamental notions in GStreamer to make it use 0 cpu when running some processing. I blame late night mails... I

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-24 Thread Clark, Rob
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com wrote: On Thursday 24 February 2011 14:04:19 Hans Verkuil wrote: On Thursday, February 24, 2011 13:29:56 Linus Walleij wrote: 2011/2/23 Sachin Gupta sachin.gu...@linaro.org: The imaging coprocessor in

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-24 Thread Clark, Rob
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Edward Hervey bilb...@gmail.com wrote:  What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing at the kernel level which v4l2,omx,X,GL,vdpau,vaapi,... can use and that userspace (like GStreamer) can pass around, monitor and know about. yes yes yes

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-24 Thread Clark, Rob
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Hans Verkuil hverk...@xs4all.nl wrote: There are two parts to this: first of all you need a way to allocate large buffers. The CMA patch series is available (but not yet merged) that does this. I'm not sure of the latest status of this series. The other part

Re: [st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-21 Thread Clark, Rob
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Robert Fekete robert.fek...@linaro.org wrote: Hi, In order to expand this knowledge outside of Linaro I took the Liberty of inviting both linux-media@vger.kernel.org and gstreamer-de...@lists.freedesktop.org. For any newcomer I really recommend to do some