[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2] lavu: add BCMVK hwcontext implementation

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am Sa., 27. März 2021 um 01:59 Uhr schrieb <suji.velupillai at broadcom.com>:
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> From: Suji Velupillai <suji.velupillai at broadcom.com>
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> Initial commit to add BCMVK hardware accelerator implementation.
> The depedency component vkil source code can be obtained from github
> https://github.com/Broadcom/vkil

I just googled for "BCMVK" and could not quickly find out what it is,
the only useful link I saw points to this mailng list.

The github page has no readme and a very low number of commits,
googling for "vkil" only points to the github page afaict.

We had a (short) discussion about this topic, iirc, the outcome was
that we will consider accepting this patch if hardware can be bought
online (easily).

Don't misunderstand me: This is not about "BCMVK" or "vkil" but
more about the question if we help FFmpeg users if we add this
hardware acceleration to our codebase. Availability of hardware
may not be an argument sufficient to justify the addition but I
suspect it counts as a necessary condition.

Carl Eugen