Re: [RFC PATCH v8] media: add v4l2 subdev driver for S5K4ECGX sensor

2012-09-27 Thread Laurent Pinchart
t kind of settings do you have in the "firmware" ? > We have analysed this issue and hopefully there should be no > request_firmware() calls from within probe(), as long as the host interface > driver doesn't call s_power from it's probe() callback. I'm a

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-20 Thread Laurent Pinchart
broader review.) > > > GPU is also a bit weird in some ways because while its normally > > nonsensical to do things like use the capture facility one card to drive > > part of another, it's actually rather useful (although not supported > >

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-18 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Rob, (CC'ing linux-media, as I believe this is very on-topic) On Sunday 18 September 2011 18:14:26 Rob Clark wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Thursday 15 September 2011 20:39:21 Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote: > >> On 09/15/2011

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-17 Thread Laurent Pinchart
l-archive.com/linux-samsung- s...@vger.kernel.org/msg06292.html [3] http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/media_common.html [4] http://www.ideasonboard.org/media/omap3isp.ps -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-17 Thread Laurent Pinchart
M platform and will allow applications to pass buffers around between device drivers from different subsystems. > In my semi-perfect world vision fb would be a legacy layer on top of DRM. > DRM would get the silly recovery fail cases fixed, and a kernel console > would be attachable to a GEM obje

Re: Future desktop on dumb frame buffers?

2011-03-24 Thread Laurent Pinchart
solves all the > embedded SoC problems (which involves use-cases optimized for no-copy > cross media/drivers). > > Last but not least... > > On Linaro there is already discussions ongoing to solve one of the > biggest issues from a SoC point of view and that is a "System Wide > Memory manager" which manages buffer sharing and resolves no-copy use > cases between devices/drivers. Read more on the following thread: > http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2011-March/003053.html. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev

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

2011-03-22 Thread Laurent Pinchart
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 topics. Same for me. I might not join for the whole week, so it

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

2011-03-16 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Alex, On Wednesday 16 March 2011 17:00:03 Alex Deucher wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 March 2011 17:47:47 Alex Deucher wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> FWIW, I have yet to see any v4l developers ever e

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

2011-03-16 Thread Laurent Pinchart
; necessary quirks for various hw, it may be bigger than you want. > That's why we have GEM and TTM and driver specific memory management > ioctls in the drm. I agree that we might not be able to use the same memory buffers for all devices, as they all have more or less complex requirements regarding the memory properties (type, alignment, ...). However, having a common API to pass buffers around between drivers and applications using a common ID would be highly interesting. I'm not sure how complex that would be, I might not have all the nasty small details in mind. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev

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

2011-03-16 Thread Laurent Pinchart
be done this week, during the V4L2 brainstorming meeting in Warsaw). We will then of course contact DRM/DRI developers. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev

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

2011-03-16 Thread Laurent Pinchart
On Tuesday 15 March 2011 17:07:10 Robert Fekete wrote: > On 8 March 2011 20:23, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 March 2011 20:12:45 Andy Walls wrote: > >> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 16:52 +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >> > >> [snip] > >> >

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

2011-03-08 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Andy, On Tuesday 08 March 2011 20:12:45 Andy Walls wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 16:52 +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > It really shouldn't be that hard to get everyone involved together > > > > and settle on a single solution (eit

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

2011-03-08 Thread Laurent Pinchart
...) and display it on the GPU (OpenGL/ES). We need to be able to share a data buffer between the ISP and the DSP, and another buffer between the DSP and the GPU. If processing is not required, sharing a data buffer between the ISP and the GPU is required. Achieving zero-copy requires a singl

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 E

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

2011-02-28 Thread Laurent Pinchart
e time: CMA must be *optional*. Not all hardware need contiguous memory. I'll have a look at the next HWMEM version. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart ___ 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 Laurent Pinchart
gt; > > I will be there and this was definitely a topic I intended to talk about. > > > > See you there. > > I'll also be there. Should we organize an official BOF session for this and > invite more people? Any chance of an IRC back

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

2011-02-24 Thread Laurent Pinchart
plement > > > low power non(or minimal) CPU intervention pipelines where dedicated > > > HW does the work most of the time(like full screen Video Playback). > > > > > > A common way of managing memory would of course also be n

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

2011-02-24 Thread Laurent Pinchart
is the global buffers pool (see http://lwn.net/Articles/353044/ for instance, more information can be found in the linux-media list archives). [snip] > > Let the discussion continue... > > > > On 17 February 2011 14:48, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >> On Thursday 10 Feb

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

2011-02-24 Thread Laurent Pinchart
end result is pretty much the same. I think the biggest issue we will have here is that part of the inter- processors communication stack lives in userspace in most recent SoCs (OMAP4 comes to mind for instance). This will make implementing a V4L2 driver that re

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

2011-02-24 Thread Laurent Pinchart
vendors use the their own implementations. > Our approach called it as CMA, others called it as cmem, carveout, > hwmon and so on. > > I think Laurent's approaches is similar one. Just for the record, my global buffers pool RFC didn't try to solve the contiguous memory allocation problem. It aimed at providing drivers (and applications) with an API to allocate and use buffers. How the memory is allocated is outside the scope of the global buffers pool, CMA makes perfect sense for that. > We will try it again to merge CMA. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart ___ 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

2011-02-17 Thread Laurent Pinchart
> Linaro homepage: > > "Linaroâ„¢ brings together the open source community and the electronics > industry to work on key projects, deliver great tools, reduce industry > wide fragmentation and provide common foundations for Linux software > distributions and stacks to land

Re: v4l2 vs omx for camera

2011-02-09 Thread Laurent Pinchart
hy not ask Hans Verkuil and Laurent Pinchart? Sorry for bringing you in > like this but you are the true experts in v4l2. No worries, I'm glad to be helpful. > On 8 February 2011 13:42, SUBASH PATEL wrote: > > > > Thanks for sharing the slide. It was informative on OMA