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* media: docs: move uAPI book to userspace-api/mediaMauro Carvalho Chehab2020-04-141-1101/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since 2017, there is an space reserved for userspace API, created by changeset 1d596dee3862 ("docs: Create a user-space API guide"). As the media subsystem was one of the first subsystems to use Sphinx, until this patch, we were keeping things on a separate place. Let's just use the new location, as having all uAPI altogether will likely make things easier for developers. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
* media: docs-rst: Document memory-to-memory video decoder interfaceTomasz Figa2019-08-191-0/+1101
Due to complexity of the video decoding process, the V4L2 drivers of stateful decoder hardware require specific sequences of V4L2 API calls to be followed. These include capability enumeration, initialization, decoding, seek, pause, dynamic resolution change, drain and end of stream. Specifics of the above have been discussed during Media Workshops at LinuxCon Europe 2012 in Barcelona and then later Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2014 in Düsseldorf. The de facto Codec API that originated at those events was later implemented by the drivers we already have merged in mainline, such as s5p-mfc or coda. The only thing missing was the real specification included as a part of Linux Media documentation. Fix it now and document the decoder part of the Codec API. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>