Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Hardware-accelerated video decoders used through a firmware instead of hardware registers | From | Philipp Zabel <> | Date | Mon, 13 May 2019 15:47:37 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Sun, 2019-05-12 at 18:32 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: [...] > I would be curious to know what the situation is on the i.MX6 coda > block, which also seems pretty obscure.
FWIW, I had started collecting things I learned about the BIT processor in the CODA IP cores, mostly by looking at the firmware files distributed by Freescale/NXP: https://github.com/pH5/coda-bits
It is a somewhat strange custom 16-bit DSP architecture. There is a rudimentary start for a disassembler in there as well, but large parts of the instruction set are still completely unknown, and I have no idea how the address generator / DMA units or bitstream accelerators work.
I would be delighted if somebody would like to pick up analyzing the BIT processor ISA further. I think it could be fruitful to start systematically throwing instructions at it and see what happens, to learn more. I haven't had much motivation to play with this, recently.
About the internal connections and available accelerator units, there is a block diagram in the i.MX53 TRM, but I am not aware of any register level description for any of these.
regards Philipp
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