Hi Ezequiel, On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 3:17 AM Ezequiel Garcia <ezequ...@collabora.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > This series enables the post-processor support available > on the Hantro G1 VPU. The post-processor block can be > pipelined with the decoder hardware, allowing to perform > operations such as color conversion, scaling, rotation, > cropping, among others. > > The decoder hardware needs its own set of NV12 buffers > (the native decoder format), and the post-processor is the > owner of the CAPTURE buffers. This allows the application > get processed (scaled, converted, etc) buffers, completely > transparently. > > This feature is implemented by exposing other CAPTURE pixel > formats to the application (ENUM_FMT). When the application > sets a pixel format other than NV12, the driver will enable > and use the post-processor transparently.
I'll try to review the series a bit later, but a general comment here is that the userspace wouldn't have a way to distinguish between the native and post-processed formats. I'm pretty much sure that post-processing at least imposes some power penalty, so it would be good if the userspace could avoid it if unnecessary. Best regards, Tomasz
