Hi Hans,
Thank you for your comment. I agree that this submission lacks documents sharing basic idea of the accelerators; what do they accept and what do they yield. Where can I put a new document? Can I put it as a comment in a source? Can I add a file under Documentation/misc-devices directory?
Thanks, Yuji Ishikawa
-----Original Message----- From: Hans Verkuil hverkuil@xs4all.nl Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 8:15 PM To: ishikawa yuji(石川 悠司 ○ＲＤＣ□ＡＩＴＣ○ＥＡ開) yuji2.ishikawa@toshiba.co.jp; Rob Herring robh+dt@kernel.org; iwamatsu nobuhiro(岩松 信洋 □ＳＷＣ◯ＡＣＴ) nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@toshiba.co.jp; Sumit Semwal sumit.semwal@linaro.org; Christian König christian.koenig@amd.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-media@vger.kernel.org; dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add Toshiba Visconti DNN image processing accelerator driver
Hi Yuji,
On 4/28/22 15:11, Yuji Ishikawa wrote:
This series is the DNN image processing accelerator driver for Toshiba's ARM
SoC, Visconti[0].
This provides DT binding documentation, device driver, MAINTAINER files.
The second patch "soc: visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti image processing
accelerator common source"
and the fourth patch "MAINTAINERS: ..." are the same as the ones in the
preceding post for affine driver.
There appears to be no documentation whatsoever, unless I am missing something.
How is the uAPI supposed to be used? What does it do? What formats does it accept or produce?
If this processes images, then (as Laurent mentioned) this is more suitable as a V4L2 mem2mem driver.
See https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis-new/userspace-api/v4l/dev-me m2mem.html and the many drivers in drivers/media that use it (git grep v4l2-mem2mem.h).
But without any explanation whatsoever I have no idea what does or does not make sense.
Regards,
Hans
Best regards, Yuji
[0]:
https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/semiconductor/product/image-
recognition-processors-visconti.html
Yuji Ishikawa (4): dt-bindings: soc: visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti DNN image processing accelerator bindings soc: visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti image processing accelerator common source soc: visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti DNN image processing accelerator MAINTAINERS: Add entries for Toshiba Visconti DNN image processing accelerator
.../soc/visconti/toshiba,visconti-dnn.yaml | 54 ++ MAINTAINERS | 2 + drivers/soc/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/soc/Makefile | 1 + drivers/soc/visconti/Kconfig | 7 + drivers/soc/visconti/Makefile | 8 + drivers/soc/visconti/dnn/Makefile | 6 + drivers/soc/visconti/dnn/dnn.c | 533
++++++++++++++++++
drivers/soc/visconti/dnn/hwd_dnn.c | 183 ++++++ drivers/soc/visconti/dnn/hwd_dnn.h | 68 +++ drivers/soc/visconti/dnn/hwd_dnn_reg.h | 228 ++++++++ drivers/soc/visconti/ipa_common.c | 55 ++ drivers/soc/visconti/ipa_common.h | 18 + drivers/soc/visconti/uapi/dnn.h | 77 +++ drivers/soc/visconti/uapi/ipa.h | 88 +++ 15 files changed, 1329 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/visconti/toshiba,visconti-dnn.ya ml create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/dnn/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/dnn/dnn.c create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/dnn/hwd_dnn.c create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/dnn/hwd_dnn.h create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/dnn/hwd_dnn_reg.h create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/ipa_common.c create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/ipa_common.h create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/uapi/dnn.h create mode 100644 drivers/soc/visconti/uapi/ipa.h