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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 3/5] staging: Introduce NVIDIA Tegra video decoder driver
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Hi Hans,

On 04.12.2017 17:04, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> As you already mention in the TODO, this should become a v4l2 codec driver.
>
> Good existing examples are the coda, qcom/venus and mtk-vcodec drivers.
>
> One thing that is not clear from this code is if the tegra hardware is a
> stateful or stateless codec, i.e. does it keep track of the decoder state
> in the hardware, or does the application have to keep track of the state and
> provide the state information together with the video data?
>
> I ask because at the moment only stateful codecs are supported. Work is ongoing
> to support stateless codecs, but we don't support that for now.
>

It is stateless. Is there anything ready to try out? If yes, could you please
give a reference to that work?

> Anyway, I'm OK with merging this in staging. Although I think it should go
> to staging/media since we want to keep track of it.
>

Awesome, I'll move driver to staging/media in V5. Thanks!

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