Xalius 39 February 2 Free Electrons (now Bootlin ;/) have launched a Kickstarter to get the work on the Allwinner VPU (Video Processing Unit) off the ground again... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-support-in-the-official-linux-kernel MitchD, Igor and TonyMac32 like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tido 94 February 2 Free Electrons is changing to a new name, in the context of a trademark dispute. The weird thing about this campaign - you support ALLWINNER, while ALLWINNER actually should pay Bootlin to do this for them. Especially people using OSMC OpenELEC LibreELEC Kodi - should be strong supporter of this Kickstarter ... unless you use a different SoC. Edited February 2 by Tido some more to say :-) RagnerBG and manuti like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zador.blood.stained 716 February 2 59 minutes ago, Tido said: The weird thing about this campaign - you support ALLWINNER, while ALLWINNER actually should pay Bootlin to do this for them. AW doesn't care as long as their Android BSPs work, regardless of GPL status and the number of blobs. Regarding whether AW cares about mainline stuff and open-source: https://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2018-02-01#21205164 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tido 94 February 2 beating a dead horse is not going to get you anywhere. I rather support Amlogic or Rockchip pfeerick likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jernej 131 February 3 9 hours ago, zador.blood.stained said: AW doesn't care as long as their Android BSPs work, regardless of GPL status and the number of blobs. Regarding whether AW cares about mainline stuff and open-source: https://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2018-02-01#21205164 While they still don't cooperate with open source community as good as Rockchip, they at least are more cooperative. I asked for HDMI/DE2/DE3 documents and received all of them. Someone else asked about AC200 doc and also receive it. Or better said, they were uploaded to linux-sunxi.org. I would say that is a very good improvement. Tido, TonyMac32 and pfeerick like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zador.blood.stained 716 February 3 4 hours ago, jernej said: I would say that is a very good improvement. Yes, but in a long run this may not be enough, there are too many sunxi SoCs and not that many involved developers to get mainlining efforts close to Amlogic or Rockchip levels, and any documentation issue only makes it worse, especially for essentials like DRAM code. Naguissa and Tido like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jernej 131 February 3 1 hour ago, zador.blood.stained said: there are too many sunxi SoCs Fortunately, periphery on them is mostly the same or for iteration better, so at least basic support is quickly added. But yes, libdram situation is very irritating. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zador.blood.stained 716 February 3 24 minutes ago, jernej said: better "better" still means "different", just look at the GPADC/THS situation - newer SoCs have "better" versions but it took quite some time to settle the argument between developers and maintainers how the new and existing code needs to be refactored to fit into mainline, and Icenowy already noped out of mainlining H3/H5/A64 THS. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guidol 54 February 3 Great Bootlin News from https://twitter.com/bootlincom : Quote Wow, we're impressed! Our @kickstarter campaign launch just yesterday has already hit its main goal (17600 EUR) ! Many, many, many thanks to all our backers, individuals and companies. We are really happy to see that crowdfunding Linux kernel upstream development has been well received! Developing and upstreaming complete Linux support for the Allwinner VPU, for hardware accelerated video decoding and encoding. A Stretch Goal was is (Requires 4400 EUR in addition to our main goal): Supporting the newer Allwinner SoCs, such as the H3, H5 and A64. At this time they have: 22.013 US$ = +13$ over the stretch-goal Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tido 94 February 3 I hope and guess they have a contract in place with ALLWINNER, so they get the documentation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jernej 131 February 3 43 minutes ago, guidol said: A Stretch Goal was (Requires 4400 EUR in addition to our main goal): Supporting the newer Allwinner SoCs, such as the H3, H5 and A64. Are you sure you're not mixing USD and EUR? Kickstarter currently shows 17668 EUR. 5 minutes ago, Tido said: I hope and guess they have a contract in place with ALLWINNER, so they get the documentation. Doubtful, but there's a lot of knowledge already in form of registers description on wiki and working prototypes like libvdpau-sunxi and sunxi-cedrus (v4l2 driver they are finishing it now). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guidol 54 February 3 21 minutes ago, jernej said: Are you sure you're not mixing USD and EUR? Kickstarter currently shows 17668 EUR. Yes you catched me - as I did read - I think there was only one currency at the page They "only" have 22.013USD and not 22.000EUR - so the stretch goal isnt reached. BUT this was the first day - there will be 43 more to spend.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hojnikb 15 February 3 This is great news! Hopefully they can reach their goal and make it happen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manuti 44 February 5 Founded. I like to bet for death horses!And the First additional stretch goal is reached 22.943 € Monday, February 5. guidol likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tkaiser 1423 February 5 32 minutes ago, manuti said: And the stretch goal is reached The first stretch goal is reached (that was the 'try to cover not only horribly outdated SoCs from half a decade ago but also some of the just outdated ones'). Two stretch goals are yet open and they estimate the same amount of work/money needed (another 22 man days or 22,000€ in total) manuti likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tido 94 February 5 30 minutes ago, tkaiser said: (another 22 man days or 22,000€ in total) it is not about hiring a contractor - both internals, Maxime Ripard, working for Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) as an embedded Linux engineer since 2011. Paul Kocialkowski, who will be working as an intern at Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) starting March 2018. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baal 0 March 6 May be someone interested. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-support-in-the-official-linux-kernel First stretch goal - H3/H5 support already reached. May be we'll finally have proper video support Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chwe 117 March 6 By using this: you'll find this: which has even the same title than your tread... Edited March 7 by zador.blood.stained Merged Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xalius 39 March 15 Three days left, 2k left to reach the H.265 decoding stretch goal... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hojnikb 15 March 15 Even if they get h264 decoding working, its going to be a huge win for allwinner community. Having a working h265 isn't really all that useful to be honest, since the common chips (H3,H5 etc) only support 8 bit decoding, while most media i came across is encoded for 10 bit. h264 media on the other hand is still widely available, so having mainline support would be awesome. Now if someone would get this working under chrome or firefox, that would be a different ballgame manuti likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maor545 0 March 19 Now I hope, those guys will deliver, what they have promised. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tido 94 March 19 places to watch: a nice table per SoC - http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedrus more details - http://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-cedrus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tido 94 March 31 to follow this topic, there is an update on their blog: https://bootlin.com/blog/allwinner-vpu-support-in-mainline-linux-status-update-week-13/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tido 94 April 15 Release the libVA improvements when the kernel driver patch series is ready for submission, sometime next week. read more here: https://bootlin.com/ lanefu likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
