[RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2012-06-08 Thread javier Martin
Fabio, On 8 June 2012 08:51, javier Martin javier.mar...@vista-silicon.com wrote: Hi Fabio, On 7 June 2012 19:35, Fabio Estevam feste...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Javier, On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:30 AM, javier Martin javier.mar...@vista-silicon.com wrote: As i stated, the driver is still in an

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2012-06-08 Thread javier Martin
Hi Robert, On 8 June 2012 09:26, Robert Schwebel r.schwe...@pengutronix.de wrote: Hi Javier, On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 09:21:13AM +0200, javier Martin wrote: If you refer to driver in [1] I have some concerns: i.MX27 VPU should be implemented as a V4L2 mem2mem device since it gets raw pictures

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2012-06-08 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 09:39:15AM +0200, javier Martin wrote: Do you plan to provide both encoding and decoding support or just one of them? We need both. rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions |

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2012-06-08 Thread Sascha Hauer
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 09:39:15AM +0200, javier Martin wrote: Hi Robert, On 8 June 2012 09:26, Robert Schwebel r.schwe...@pengutronix.de wrote: Hi Javier, On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 09:21:13AM +0200, javier Martin wrote: If you refer to driver in [1] I have some concerns: i.MX27 VPU

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2012-06-08 Thread javier Martin
On 8 June 2012 10:48, Sascha Hauer s.ha...@pengutronix.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 09:39:15AM +0200, javier Martin wrote: Hi Robert, On 8 June 2012 09:26, Robert Schwebel r.schwe...@pengutronix.de wrote: Hi Javier, On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 09:21:13AM +0200, javier Martin wrote: If

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2012-06-08 Thread javier Martin
Hi, I've checked this matter with a colleague and we have several reasons to doubt that the i.MX27 and the i.MX53 can share the same driver for their Video Processing Units (VPU): 1. The VPU in the i.MX27 is a codadx6 with support for H.264, H.263 and MPEG4-Part2 [1]. Provided Freescale is using

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2012-06-08 Thread Sascha Hauer
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:02:31AM +0200, javier Martin wrote: Hi, I've checked this matter with a colleague and we have several reasons to doubt that the i.MX27 and the i.MX53 can share the same driver for their Video Processing Units (VPU): 1. The VPU in the i.MX27 is a codadx6 with

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2012-06-08 Thread javier Martin
On 8 June 2012 11:23, Sascha Hauer s.ha...@pengutronix.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:02:31AM +0200, javier Martin wrote: Hi, I've checked this matter with a colleague and we have several reasons to doubt that the i.MX27 and the i.MX53 can share the same driver for their Video

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2012-06-08 Thread Sascha Hauer
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 01:32:27PM +0200, javier Martin wrote: On 8 June 2012 11:23, Sascha Hauer s.ha...@pengutronix.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:02:31AM +0200, javier Martin wrote: Hi Sascha, From our point of view the current situation is the following: We have a very reliable

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2011-09-16 Thread javier Martin
OK, thank you for your interest, it seems quite clear to me now. However, I'll wait to see what Sascha has to say about this to avoid duplication of work. -- Javier Martin Vista Silicon S.L. CDTUC - FASE C - Oficina S-345 Avda de los Castros s/n 39005- Santander. Cantabria. Spain +34 942 25 32

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2011-09-15 Thread Sakari Ailus
javier Martin wrote: Hi, Hi Javier, we are planning to add support to H.264/MPEG4 encoder inside the i.MX27 to v4l2. It is mainly a hardware module that has the following features: - It needs two input buffers (current frame and previous frame). - It produces a third buffer as output,

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2011-09-15 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Sakari Ailus wrote: javier Martin wrote: Hi, Hi Javier, we are planning to add support to H.264/MPEG4 encoder inside the i.MX27 to v4l2. It is mainly a hardware module that has the following features: - It needs two input buffers (current frame and previous

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2011-09-15 Thread Sakari Ailus
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 07:48:36PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Sakari Ailus wrote: javier Martin wrote: Hi, Hi Javier, we are planning to add support to H.264/MPEG4 encoder inside the i.MX27 to v4l2. It is mainly a hardware module that has the

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2011-09-07 Thread Robert Schwebel
Hi, On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:07:54PM +0200, javier Martin wrote: we are planning to add support to H.264/MPEG4 encoder inside the i.MX27 to v4l2. It is mainly a hardware module that has the following features: We have driver prototypes for the MX27 VPU (which is basically the same as on

[RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2011-09-06 Thread javier Martin
Hi, we are planning to add support to H.264/MPEG4 encoder inside the i.MX27 to v4l2. It is mainly a hardware module that has the following features: - It needs two input buffers (current frame and previous frame). - It produces a third buffer as output, containing the encoded frame, and generates

Re: [RFC] Support for H.264/MPEG4 encoder (VPU) in i.MX27.

2011-09-06 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Hi Javier On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, javier Martin wrote: Hi, we are planning to add support to H.264/MPEG4 encoder inside the i.MX27 to v4l2. It is mainly a hardware module that has the following features: - It needs two input buffers (current frame and previous frame). - It produces a third