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

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

2011-02-28 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 : > > > > > What *n

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 : > > > > What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing at 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 conf

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 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 : > > > 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 an

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 > > wrote: > > > 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey : > > > > > >>  What *needs* to be solved is an API for data allocation/passing at the >

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 s

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 > wrote: > > 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey : > > > >>  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

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 > > wrote: > > >> > Perhaps GStreamer experts would like to comment on the future plans > > >> > ahead > > >> > for zero c

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 wrote: > 2011/2/24 Edward Hervey : > >>  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.

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 > 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 id

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 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 OMX should adapt som

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 wrote: > On Thursday, February 24, 2011 13:29:56 Linus Walleij wrote: >> 2011/2/23 Sachin Gupta : >> >> > 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

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 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 well. Then there is th

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 : > > > 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 kno

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

2011-02-25 Thread Linus Walleij
2011/2/24 Edward Hervey : >  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 ST-Ericsson's Johan Mossb

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 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 is that ever

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 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 yes!! vaapi/vdpa

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 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 : >> > > The imaging coprocessor in today's platforms have a general purpose DSP >> > > a

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...

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 readin

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

2011-02-24 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi, On Thursday 24 February 2011 15:48:20 Kyungmin Park wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:17 PM, 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 knowled

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 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 linux-media

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 linux-

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

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 > 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.

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

2011-02-24 Thread Laurent Pinchart
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 : > > > 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 f

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

2011-02-24 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Thursday, February 24, 2011 13:29:56 Linus Walleij wrote: > 2011/2/23 Sachin Gupta : > > > 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

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

2011-02-24 Thread Linus Walleij
2011/2/23 Sachin Gupta : > 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 does not consume the

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 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 >