Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] staging: Introduce NVIDIA Tegra video decoder driver | From | Dmitry Osipenko <> | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2017 15:17:58 +0300 |
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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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