staging: bcm2835-v4l2: Add a TODO file for improvements we need.
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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1) Support dma-buf memory management.
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In order to zero-copy import camera images into the 3D or display
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pipelines, we need to export our buffers through dma-buf so that the
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vc4 driver can import them. This may involve bringing in the VCSM
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driver (which allows long-term management of regions of memory in the
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space that the VPU reserved and Linux otherwise doesn't have access
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to), or building some new protocol that allows VCSM-style management
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of Linux's CMA memory.
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2) Avoid extra copies for padding of images.
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We expose V4L2_PIX_FMT_* formats that have a specified stride/height
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padding in the V4L2 spec, but that padding doesn't match what the
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hardware can do. If we exposed the native padding requirements
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through the V4L2 "multiplanar" formats, the firmware would have one
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less copy it needed to do.
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3) Port to ARM64
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The bulk_receive() does some manual cache flushing that are 32-bit ARM
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only, which we should convert to proper cross-platform APIs.
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4) Convert to be a platform driver.
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Right now when the module probes, it tries to initialize VCHI and
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errors out if it wasn't ready yet. If bcm2835-v4l2 was built in, then
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VCHI generally isn't ready because it depends on both the firmware and
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mailbox drivers having already loaded.
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We should have VCHI create a platform device once it's initialized,
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and have this driver bind to it, so that we automatically load the
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v4l2 module after VCHI loads.
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5) Drop the gstreamer workaround.
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This was a temporary workaround for a bug that was fixed mid-2014, and
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we should remove it before stabilizing the driver.
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