Hi everyone,
here is the next major code drop for the radeon driver. It adds support for VCE2 as found on the newest CIK hardware generation. VCE1 as found on SI and Trinity hardware generation is currently not supported, but might get added in the future.
VCE is basically a hardware H264 encoding engine. It's optimized for low latency encoding as found on wireless display, but can be used for general purpose encoding as well.
The kernel patches implement everything needed to get the hardware block up and running. The mesa patches then implement a basic H264 encoder on top of that. The support for encoding is currently exposed through the OpenMAX state tracker. Beside on the proper mailing lists the patches can be found here as well:
Kernel: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~deathsimple/linux/log/?h=vce-release Mesa: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~deathsimple/mesa/log/?h=vce-release
Additional to the new code a firmware file (BONAIRE_vce.bin) is needed which can be found here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/
Please review and as always comments are very welcome, Christian.