Re: Yet another memory provider: can linaro organize a meeting?

2011-03-22 Thread Hans Verkuil
Who will be there? Is there a BoF or something similar organized? > 3. Linaro (5/9~5/13): ARM, SoC vendors and v4l2 persons. > I hope several person are anticipated and made a small step for final goal. I should be able to join, at least for the part related to buffer pools and related top

Re: Yet another memory provider: can linaro organize a meeting?

2011-03-08 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 15:01:10 Andy Walls wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 09:13 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We had a discussion yesterday regarding ways in which linaro can assist > > V4L2 development. One topic was that of sorting out memory

Yet another memory provider: can linaro organize a meeting?

2011-03-08 Thread Hans Verkuil
VCM, CMEM, PMEM. I'm sure that last list is incomplete. Regards, Hans -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev

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 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 d

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

2011-02-26 Thread Hans Verkuil
et&target=gst-openmax.png > > 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 something more concrete. It seems

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

2011-02-26 Thread Hans Verkuil
a look at this. I hope that the CMA + HWMEM combination is exactly what we need. Regards, Hans > I think there is *much* interest > in this mechanism, people just don't know from the name what it > really does. Maybe it should be called mediamem or something > ins

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

2011-02-24 Thread Hans Verkuil
ystems can use. It's not a good idea to tie this to any specific framework like GEM. Instead any subsystem should be able to use the same subsystem-independent buffer pool API. The actual code is probably not too bad, but trying to coordinate this over all subsystems is not an easy task. >

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

2011-02-24 Thread Hans Verkuil
be *much* easier, though. A good argument for doing this work is that this API can hide which parts of the video subsystem are hardware and which are software. The application really doesn't care how it is organized. What is done in hardware on one SoC might be done on a DSP instead on anot

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

2011-02-10 Thread Hans Verkuil
rk on key projects, deliver great tools, reduce industry wide fragmentation and provide common foundations for Linux software distributions and stacks to land on." Spot on, I'd say :-) Just for the record, let me say again they the V4L2 community will be very happy to assist with this

Re: v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-09 Thread Hans Verkuil
libraries. It's way too early. Regards, Hans > > > Thanks > Sachin > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 07:34:09 Sachin Gupta wrote: > > > Looking at ppt from Robert , it seems v4l2 subd

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

2011-02-09 Thread Hans Verkuil
practice I don't see this happening anytime soon. It would be a very interesting experiment though. Of course, if you don't care about getting drivers in the kernel, then I won't stop you from using OpenMax. Personally I think that attempt to write a generic framework like OpenMax is highly problematic due to the wildly different video hardware implementations and the many different types of features. BTW, if there are features missing in V4L2 that are needed to write an OpenMAX framework on top of it, then please let us know. Regards, Hans -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev

Re: v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-09 Thread Hans Verkuil
h environment. Let me know if > > there is any other alternative. > > > > Regards, > > Subash > > ___ > > linaro-dev mailing list > > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > > > -- Hans Ver

Re: v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-09 Thread Hans Verkuil
e registers or makes mailbox calls to a separate DSP/CPU. It hasn't been done yet since the V4L2 has only recently matured enough to support such systems, and because of the often closed-source nature of such systems. Regards, Hans -- Hans Verkuil - vid

Re: Re: v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-08 Thread Hans Verkuil
was probably never a consideration. However, the V4L2 API and internal framework is improving rapidly, so it is now much more attractive for powerful video hardware. BTW, the main mailinglist for all things V4L is linux-me...@vger.kernel.org. Regards, Hans > Why not ask Hans Verkuil and