On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:06 PM Mark Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/03/2021 18:29, Suji Velupillai wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:12 AM Jean-Baptiste Kempf <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, at 23:09, [email protected] wrote: > >>> Initial commit to add VKAPI hardware accelerator implementation. > >>> The depedency component vkil source code can be obtained from github > >>> https://github.com/Broadcom/vkil > >> > >> This has no license, no readme, no description. > >> > > I'll have this addressed in the github. > > > > > >> > >> What is the hardware supported? > >> > > It's an M.2 module connected via PCIe that supports video transcoding. > Some > > high level info can be found here > > > https://engineering.fb.com/2019/03/14/data-center-engineering/accelerating-infrastructure/ > > > > Does it work for rPI? > >> > > No > > So it's some sort of custom hardware for Facebook servers, and presumably > therefore of no use to anyone outside Facebook? Why is this being > submitted to FFmpeg? > > The servers are from Facebook's contribution to the Open Compute Project. See Facebook Contributions to Open Compute Project (OCP) <https://www.opencompute.org/contributions?refinementList%5Bcontributor%5D%5B0%5D=Facebook&refinementList%5Bproject%5D=&refinementList%5Bfamily%5D=&page=1&configure%5BfacetFilters%5D%5B0%5D=archived%3Afalse> . The Video Transcoding PCIe cards are standard M.2 form factor and can be used in standard Servers or Desktops that accept M.2 cards. Kernel driver for the hardware is already in kernel 5.11. > - Mark > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
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