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Allwinner VPU support for the Linux kernel

by throwaway000002 on 2/2/18, 9:37 PM with 24 comments

• by jagger27 on 2/2/18, 10:25 PM

  Allwinner would be pretty foolish not to fully fund this endeavour (including stretch goals). They couldn't do it themselves this cheap. They'd make up the costs in new sales faster from FOSS-minded devs in no time flat and they'll have minimal recurring dev costs in the long run.

  To me this is a no-brainer.

• by WhitneyLand on 2/2/18, 10:23 PM

  Why do more work on mpeg-2?

  Couldn’t that path just be left without acceleration, being it’s a less complex codec to begin with, usage is not growing, and the data sources are likely smaller to begin with (no 4k for example)?

• by pedrocr on 2/2/18, 10:10 PM

  What kind of hardware is this that makes it usable for encoding/decoding mpeg2/h264/h265? Is this something that should be exposed as a general programming target instead of a set of video specific APIs?