On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 13:11:12 +0000 Guillaume Gardet <Guillaume.Gardet@arm.com> wrote:
Hi,
-----Original Message----- From: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de> Sent: 04 January 2021 13:48 To: arm@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Ferguson STBs
Hi all!
Our current HTPC runs happily with Leap + Kodi, but it's too bulky for most of the prospected new furniture ;)
After a lot of research for FLOSS, I consider to replace it with a Ferguson Ariva ATV TT [1]. The Hisilicon hi3798cv200 seems to be designed specifically for STBs and is supported mainline, and even the reference board's DTS (hi3798cv200- poplar.dts) only hooks up a few LEDs to GPIOs. I assume H.264 on Panfrost works?
Panfrost is for openGL/OpenCL on some Mali GPU, not for video decoding. The SoC may include a video decoder, though.
You're absolutely right. I was assuming VAAPI -> Mesa -> Panfrost, but the Hi3798C (note the "C"!), besides its Mali T720MP, also has some "HiVXE 2.0" video engine, and also an "Imprex 2.0" video-overlay-2D-thingy. No info on those 2 :( Thanks for the correction! Back to square 1 and sorry for the noise. Torsten