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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml | 35 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml | 2 |
5 files changed, 44 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl index c36892c072da..fca34192cf80 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl @@ -297,10 +297,10 @@ KAO --> </sect1> <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Fonts</title> <para> - Refer to the file drivers/video/console/fonts.c for more information. + Refer to the file lib/fonts/fonts.c for more information. </para> <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source -X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c +X!Ilib/fonts/fonts.c --> </sect1> </chapter> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl index b3422341d65c..d16d21b7a3b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl @@ -464,6 +464,19 @@ if (desc->irq_data.chip->irq_eoi) protected via desc->lock, by the generic layer. </para> </chapter> + + <chapter id="genericchip"> + <title>Generic interrupt chip</title> + <para> + To avoid copies of identical implementations of irq chips the + core provides a configurable generic interrupt chip + implementation. Developers should check carefuly whether the + generic chip fits their needs before implementing the same + functionality slightly different themself. + </para> +!Ekernel/irq/generic-chip.c + </chapter> + <chapter id="structs"> <title>Structures</title> <para> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl index 67e7ab41c0a6..09e884e5b9f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl @@ -1955,12 +1955,17 @@ machines due to caching. </sect1> </chapter> - <chapter id="apiref"> + <chapter id="apiref-mutex"> <title>Mutex API reference</title> !Iinclude/linux/mutex.h !Ekernel/mutex.c </chapter> + <chapter id="apiref-futex"> + <title>Futex API reference</title> +!Ikernel/futex.c + </chapter> + <chapter id="references"> <title>Further reading</title> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml index dca0ecd54dc6..ff44c16fc080 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml @@ -1,18 +1,27 @@ <title>Codec Interface</title> - <note> - <title>Suspended</title> + <para>A V4L2 codec can compress, decompress, transform, or otherwise +convert video data from one format into another format, in memory. Typically +such devices are memory-to-memory devices (i.e. devices with the +<constant>V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M</constant> or <constant>V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M_MPLANE</constant> +capability set). +</para> - <para>This interface has been be suspended from the V4L2 API -implemented in Linux 2.6 until we have more experience with codec -device interfaces.</para> - </note> + <para>A memory-to-memory video node acts just like a normal video node, but it +supports both output (sending frames from memory to the codec hardware) and +capture (receiving the processed frames from the codec hardware into memory) +stream I/O. An application will have to setup the stream +I/O for both sides and finally call &VIDIOC-STREAMON; for both capture and output +to start the codec.</para> - <para>A V4L2 codec can compress, decompress, transform, or otherwise -convert video data from one format into another format, in memory. -Applications send data to be converted to the driver through a -&func-write; call, and receive the converted data through a -&func-read; call. For efficiency a driver may also support streaming -I/O.</para> + <para>Video compression codecs use the MPEG controls to setup their codec parameters +(note that the MPEG controls actually support many more codecs than just MPEG). +See <xref linkend="mpeg-controls"></xref>.</para> - <para>[to do]</para> + <para>Memory-to-memory devices can often be used as a shared resource: you can +open the video node multiple times, each application setting up their own codec properties +that are local to the file handle, and each can use it independently from the others. +The driver will arbitrate access to the codec and reprogram it whenever another file +handler gets access. This is different from the usual video node behavior where the video properties +are global to the device (i.e. changing something through one file handle is visible +through another file handle).</para> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml index bfc93cdcf696..bfe823dd0f31 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ and discussions on the V4L mailing list.</revremark> </partinfo> <title>Video for Linux Two API Specification</title> - <subtitle>Revision 3.9</subtitle> + <subtitle>Revision 3.10</subtitle> <chapter id="common"> &sub-common; |