[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavu: add VKAPI hwcontext implementation

[Mark Thompson]

On 12/03/2021 18:29, Suji Velupillai wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:12 AM Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, at 23:09, suji.velupillai at broadcom.com wrote:
>>> Initial commit to add VKAPI hardware accelerator implementation.
>>> The depedency component vkil source code can be obtained from github
>>> https://github.com/Broadcom/vkil
>>
>> This has no license, no readme, no description.
>>
> I'll have this addressed in the github.
> 
> 
>>
>> What is the hardware supported?
>>
> It's an M.2 module connected via PCIe that supports video transcoding. Some
> high level info can be found here
> https://engineering.fb.com/2019/03/14/data-center-engineering/accelerating-infrastructure/
> 
> Does it work for rPI?
>>
> No

So it's some sort of custom hardware for Facebook servers, and presumably therefore of no use to anyone outside Facebook?  Why is this being submitted to FFmpeg?

- Mark