Make the HDMI2Eth target fully functional

[mithro]

The HDMI2Eth target doesn't really work yet, to make it work it would need to do the following;

• Stream a RTP of the video stream out the Ethernet (see start at https://github.com/timvideos/HDMI2USB-misoc-firmware/blob/master/gateware/streamer/rtp.py)
  • Would be good if you could stream both compress and uncompress video.
  • Would be good if you could stream more then one input source (assuming the bandwidth allows).
• Allow control of the board via telnet, HTTP or other network protocol.
• Use DHCP to get an IP address.
• Support both the Atlys and Opsis board (and maybe others). See https://github.com/timvideos/HDMI2USB-misoc-firmware/issues/223
• Supports operating at Gigabit speeds
• (Optional) Allows streaming an RTP stream into the board as another source that can be output.

Useful resources might be;

• @tariq786 's project to get Ethernet working in the previous firmware.
  • http://hdmi2ethernet.blogspot.com.au/
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RfgA-Fi7JEO8Z5PPYnO2wFwvrL0wVjoxkvNZ8yqMA-Y/edit
  • https://github.com/tariq786/HDMI2USB
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oknHWujhhMfLyjyc4yfocAlLUUg15ptux0R3oOo5Bms/edit
• M-Lab's artiq - https://github.com/m-labs/artiq
  • They use lwip - https://github.com/m-labs/artiq/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=lwip
  • Some discussion at http://irclog.whitequark.org/m-labs/2015-10-26#14423384;

It might be good for the firmware running on the soft-CPU to be running a full Linux (https://github.com/timvideos/getting-started/issues/30) or RTEMs OS so that their TCP/IP stack can be reused.

[mithro]

There are also other options, @sbourdeauducq suggested taking a look at https://github.com/tass-belgium/picotcp

[danielkucera]

Is this thing still alive?

[mithro]

@danielkucera It is still something we very much want to do but have not had time to finish.

[tariq786]

This is normal when you want to do too many things in parallel ;)