Cmt: [SRU][B][PATCH 0/2] uvcvideo: add mapping for HEVC payloads

[Jesse Sung]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 4:40 PM Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/09/2020 11:00, Wen-chien Jesse Sung wrote:
> > BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1895803
> >
> > These two patches add mapping for HEVC so that uvcvideo can support the format.
> >
> > The first patch is already in mainline, while the second one is in the
> > maintainer tree waiting for the next merging window.
> > * https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11577395/
> > * https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/commit/?id=40b222b56ea81aa636a4aa7a84939786369e726b
> >
> > The risk of regression is low since these patches only add a new format.
> >
> >
> > Dmitry Buzdyk (1):
> >   UBUNTU: SAUCE: media: uvcvideo: Add mapping for HEVC payloads
> >
> > Smitha T Murthy (1):
> >   media: videodev2.h: Add v4l2 definition for HEVC
> >
> >  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 5 +++++
> >  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h   | 3 +++
> >  include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h     | 1 +
> >  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> >
>
> As per SRU process, I believe we need this fix in Focal + Groovy too. Is
> that happening?

Yes, but for F/G I'd like to wait until the patch lands in the mainline.

>
> The regression potential is low - I didn't see any evidence that this
> has been tested. Has it been tested?

We have a test kernel with these two patches applied on top of Bionic
kernel and verified by QA, ODM, and other parties in the project.

Thanks,
Jesse