From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8288C433E0 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF0C64E2E for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230045AbhBQI25 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2021 03:28:57 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:56114 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229459AbhBQI2z (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2021 03:28:55 -0500 Received: from bhuna.collabora.co.uk (bhuna.collabora.co.uk [IPv6:2a00:1098:0:82:1000:25:2eeb:e3e3]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C2EAC061574; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [IPv6:2a01:e0a:4cb:a870:fd6e:12cd:95d7:3350] (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e0a:4cb:a870:fd6e:12cd:95d7:3350]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: benjamin.gaignard) by bhuna.collabora.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E4BA41F44D79; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:28:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/18] Add HANTRO G2/HEVC decoder support for IMX8MQ To: Greg KH Cc: ezequiel@collabora.com, p.zabel@pengutronix.de, mchehab@kernel.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, shawnguo@kernel.org, s.hauer@pengutronix.de, kernel@pengutronix.de, festevam@gmail.com, linux-imx@nxp.com, mripard@kernel.org, paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com, wens@csie.org, jernej.skrabec@siol.net, krzk@kernel.org, shengjiu.wang@nxp.com, adrian.ratiu@collabora.com, aisheng.dong@nxp.com, peng.fan@nxp.com, Anson.Huang@nxp.com, hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, kernel@collabora.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org References: <20210217080306.157876-1-benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com> From: Benjamin Gaignard Message-ID: <04dfae0b-92e5-e02d-c687-ba4d28b7aaf2@collabora.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:28:09 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Le 17/02/2021 à 09:08, Greg KH a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 09:02:48AM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: >> The IMX8MQ got two VPUs but until now only G1 has been enabled. >> This series aim to add the second VPU (aka G2) and provide basic >> HEVC decoding support. > Why are you adding this directly to drivers/staging/media/ and not > drivers/media/? Why can't this just go to the main location and not > live in staging? G2/HEVC is added inside the already exiting Hantro driver, it is "just" an other codec from Hantro driver point of view. In addition of that v4l2-hevc uAPI is still unstable. One goal of this series is to have one more consumer of this v4l2-hevc uAPI so maybe we can claim it to be stable enough to move away from staging and then do the same for Hantro driver. That would be a great achievement ! Benjamin > thanks, > > greg k-h >