Re: [PATCH 5/8] standard-headers: Add virtio_video.h

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 01:09:46PM +0000, Peter Griffin wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 02:55:58PM +0000, Peter Griffin wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > >  include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_video.h | 483 ++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 483 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_video.h
> > 
> > We generally inherit these files from Linux.
> > Was the driver posted for inclusion in Linux?
> 
> Thanks for reviewing. Yes the Linux virtio-video frontend driver was posted
> sometime back on the linux-media ML [1].
> 
> One piece of pushback then was not supporting vicodec/FWHT and also no Qemu
> support [2] which is what this series is trying to address.
> 
> The virtio-video spec however is now at rfc v5. So my rough plan was now I 
> have
> something working with Qemu and vicodec I can move both the frontend driver
> and the vhost-user-video to latest v5 spec.
> 
> I'm a bit unclear what the process is to get the virtio-video spec merged 
> though.
> I think I read somewhere they expect a matching frontend driver 
> implementation?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter.

No, just that it all looks on track to be merged, and got some acks from
Linux driver maintainers. This is because we don't have experts in
all fields on the TC, so input from linux maintainers is useful.

To get a change into spec the TC needs to vote
on it. The simplest way to do that is described here.

https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/blob/master/README.md#use-of-github-issues


> [1] 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/cover/20200218202753.652093-1-dmitry.sepp@opensynergy.com/
> [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-05/msg02204.html