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author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2013-06-27 20:40:44 +1000 |
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committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2013-06-27 20:40:44 +1000 |
commit | 4300a0f8bdcce5a03b88bfa16fc9827e15c52dc4 (patch) | |
tree | dea0276d7d0a12147f04ddbef9121e32e903c5ca /Documentation/DocBook | |
parent | 160954b7bca43da7cd3cfbce310e6df919a8216e (diff) | |
parent | 9e895ace5d82df8929b16f58e9f515f6d54ab82d (diff) |
Merge tag 'v3.10-rc7' into drm-next
Linux 3.10-rc7
The sdvo lvds fix in this -fixes pull
commit c3456fb3e4712d0448592af3c5d644c9472cd3c1
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date: Mon Jun 10 09:47:58 2013 +0200
drm/i915: prefer VBT modes for SVDO-LVDS over EDID
has a silent functional conflict with
commit 990256aec2f10800595dddf4d1c3441fcd6b2616
Author: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri May 31 12:17:07 2013 +0000
drm: Add probed modes in probe order
in drm-next. W simply need to add the vbt modes before edid modes, i.e. the
other way round than now.
Conflicts:
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sdvo.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml | 35 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml | 2 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml index dca0ecd54dc..ff44c16fc08 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml @@ -1,18 +1,27 @@ <title>Codec Interface</title> - <note> - <title>Suspended</title> + <para>A V4L2 codec can compress, decompress, transform, or otherwise +convert video data from one format into another format, in memory. Typically +such devices are memory-to-memory devices (i.e. devices with the +<constant>V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M</constant> or <constant>V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M_MPLANE</constant> +capability set). +</para> - <para>This interface has been be suspended from the V4L2 API -implemented in Linux 2.6 until we have more experience with codec -device interfaces.</para> - </note> + <para>A memory-to-memory video node acts just like a normal video node, but it +supports both output (sending frames from memory to the codec hardware) and +capture (receiving the processed frames from the codec hardware into memory) +stream I/O. An application will have to setup the stream +I/O for both sides and finally call &VIDIOC-STREAMON; for both capture and output +to start the codec.</para> - <para>A V4L2 codec can compress, decompress, transform, or otherwise -convert video data from one format into another format, in memory. -Applications send data to be converted to the driver through a -&func-write; call, and receive the converted data through a -&func-read; call. For efficiency a driver may also support streaming -I/O.</para> + <para>Video compression codecs use the MPEG controls to setup their codec parameters +(note that the MPEG controls actually support many more codecs than just MPEG). +See <xref linkend="mpeg-controls"></xref>.</para> - <para>[to do]</para> + <para>Memory-to-memory devices can often be used as a shared resource: you can +open the video node multiple times, each application setting up their own codec properties +that are local to the file handle, and each can use it independently from the others. +The driver will arbitrate access to the codec and reprogram it whenever another file +handler gets access. This is different from the usual video node behavior where the video properties +are global to the device (i.e. changing something through one file handle is visible +through another file handle).</para> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml index bfc93cdcf69..bfe823dd0f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ and discussions on the V4L mailing list.</revremark> </partinfo> <title>Video for Linux Two API Specification</title> - <subtitle>Revision 3.9</subtitle> + <subtitle>Revision 3.10</subtitle> <chapter id="common"> &sub-common; |