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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO | 23 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO index ec277ece47af..00aa304a7e36 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO @@ -1,7 +1,16 @@ -Before this stateless decoder driver can leave the staging area: -* The Request API needs to be stabilized; -* The codec-specific controls need to be thoroughly reviewed to ensure they - cover all intended uses cases; -* Userspace support for the Request API needs to be reviewed; -* Another stateless decoder driver should be submitted; -* At least one stateless encoder driver should be submitted. +This driver suffers from a bad initial design that results in various aspects +being intricated, making it difficult to scale to new codecs and to add encoding +support in the future. + +Before leaving the staging area, it should be reworked to clearly distinguish +between different aspects: +- platform, with resources management, interrupt handler, watchdog, + v4l2 and m2m devices registration; +- proc, with video device registration and related operations; +- context, with m2m context, queue and controls management; +- engine, with each individual codec job execution and codec-specific + operation callbacks; + +This will make it possible to register two different procs (decoder and +encoder) while sharing significant common infrastructure, common v4l2 and m2m +devices but exposing distinct video devices. |