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| author | Tomasz Stanislawski | 2012-06-14 15:37:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 2012-11-25 20:11:04 +0100 |
| commit | 4b9c1cb641c466cd3b366132017da3c8ab9d540c (patch) | |
| tree | 2ffa0298d99b5f0f1ed3e2101ad5d963d5a68542 /Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml | |
| parent | [media] v4l: Add DMABUF as a memory type (diff) | |
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[media] Documentation: media: description of DMABUF importing in V4L2
This patch adds description and usage examples for importing
DMABUF file descriptor in V4L2.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Stanislawski <t.stanislaws@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml index a8cda1acacd9..cd9943672434 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ <refnamediv> <refname>VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS</refname> - <refpurpose>Create buffers for Memory Mapped or User Pointer I/O</refpurpose> + <refpurpose>Create buffers for Memory Mapped or User Pointer or DMA Buffer + I/O</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> @@ -55,11 +56,11 @@ </note> <para>This ioctl is used to create buffers for <link linkend="mmap">memory -mapped</link> or <link linkend="userp">user pointer</link> -I/O. It can be used as an alternative or in addition to the -<constant>VIDIOC_REQBUFS</constant> ioctl, when a tighter control over buffers -is required. This ioctl can be called multiple times to create buffers of -different sizes.</para> +mapped</link> or <link linkend="userp">user pointer</link> or <link +linkend="dmabuf">DMA buffer</link> I/O. It can be used as an alternative or in +addition to the <constant>VIDIOC_REQBUFS</constant> ioctl, when a tighter +control over buffers is required. This ioctl can be called multiple times to +create buffers of different sizes.</para> <para>To allocate device buffers applications initialize relevant fields of the <structname>v4l2_create_buffers</structname> structure. They set the @@ -109,7 +110,8 @@ information.</para> <entry>__u32</entry> <entry><structfield>memory</structfield></entry> <entry>Applications set this field to -<constant>V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP</constant> or +<constant>V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP</constant>, +<constant>V4L2_MEMORY_DMABUF</constant> or <constant>V4L2_MEMORY_USERPTR</constant>. See <xref linkend="v4l2-memory" /></entry> </row> |