Re: [PATCH 4/4] venus: return P010 as preferred format for 10 bit decode

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 5.05.2023 11:03, Dikshita Agarwal wrote:
> 
> On 5/4/2023 10:50 PM, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>
>> On 4.05.2023 12:36, Dikshita Agarwal wrote:
>>> If bit depth is detected as 10 bit by firmware, return
>>> P010 as preferred decoder format to the client.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dikshita Agarwal <quic_dikshita@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c | 7 ++++++-
>>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c
>>> index 69f7f6e..ed11dc2 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c
>>> @@ -1468,8 +1468,13 @@ static void vdec_event_change(struct venus_inst *inst,
>>>       inst->out_width = ev_data->width;
>>>       inst->out_height = ev_data->height;
>>>   -    if (inst->bit_depth != ev_data->bit_depth)
>>> +    if (inst->bit_depth != ev_data->bit_depth) {
>>>           inst->bit_depth = ev_data->bit_depth;
>>> +        if (inst->bit_depth == VIDC_BITDEPTH_10)
>>> +            inst->fmt_cap = &vdec_formats[3];
>>> +        else
>>> +            inst->fmt_cap = &vdec_formats[0];
>> This doesn't scale and is very error-prone, please enumerate the
>> entries and assign it using the enumerator, like:
>>
>> enum {
>>     VDEC_FORMAT_FOO,
>>     ...
>> };
>>
>> ... vdec_formats[] = {
>>     [VDEC_FORMAT_FOO] = { foo, bar, baz }
>> }
>>
>> Konrad
> 
> I agree, this can be improved but I would prefer making that change as separate patch.
> 
> As this is not only related to HDR 10 decoding, there are other places in the code which will require similar change.
This is not a very strong argument.

You can't add code that will break very easily whenever somebody touches
that array and pinky-promise to fix it some time later, just because you
want to get your feature merged faster, this is not drivers/staging.

Konrad

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dikshita
> 
>>> +    }
>>>         if (inst->pic_struct != ev_data->pic_struct)
>>>           inst->pic_struct = ev_data->pic_struct;