Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Add support for video hardware codec of STMicroelectronics STM32 SoC series

From: Hugues FRUCHET
Date: Tue Jan 09 2024 - 04:25:39 EST


Hi Alex,

v6 sent with all the variants in a single file.

Best regards,
Hugues.

On 12/21/23 14:31, Alex Bee wrote:
Hi Hugues,

Am 21.12.23 um 14:08 schrieb Hugues FRUCHET:
Hi Alex,

This is because VDEC and VENC are two separated IPs with their own hardware resources and no links between both.
On future SoCs, VDEC can ship on its own, same for VENC.

I think that's what the driver is/was designed for :)

I don't  think there _has_ to be a link between variants in the same file.
For Rockchip we only had the issue that there _is_ a link (shared
resources) between encoder and decoder and they had (for that reason) to be
defined has a _single_ variant. And there is no reason you can ship decoder
and encoder seperated when you have two variants (with different
compatibles).
For Rockchip and iMX those files are even containing variants for completly
different generations / different SoCs. I had to cleanup this mess for
Rockchip once - and it was no fun :) Anyways: It's up to the maintainers I
guess - I just wanted to ask if I missunderstand something here.

Greetings,

Alex

Hoping that this clarify.

Best regards,
Hugues.

On 12/21/23 13:40, Alex Bee wrote:
Hi Hugues, Hi Nicolas,

is there any specific reason I'm not understanding / seeing why this is added in two seperate vdec* / venc* files and not a single vpu* file? Is it only for the seperate clocks (-names) / irqs (-names) / callbacks? Those are defined per variant and perfectly fit in a single file holding one vdec and one venc variant.

Alex

Am 21.12.23 um 09:47 schrieb Hugues Fruchet:
This patchset introduces support for VDEC video hardware decoder
and VENC video hardware encoder of STMicroelectronics STM32MP25
SoC series.

This initial support implements H264 decoding, VP8 decoding and
JPEG encoding.

This has been tested on STM32MP257F-EV1 evaluation board.

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= history =
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version 5:
    - Precise that video decoding as been successfully tested up to full HD
    - Add Nicolas Dufresne reviewed-by

version 4:
    - Fix comments from Nicolas about dropping encoder raw steps

version 3:
    - Fix remarks from Krzysztof Kozlowski:
     - drop "items", we keep simple enum in such case
     - drop second example - it is the same as the first
    - Drop unused node labels as suggested by Conor Dooley
    - Revisit min/max resolutions as suggested by Nicolas Dufresne

version 2:
    - Fix remarks from Krzysztof Kozlowski on v1:
     - single video-codec binding for both VDEC/VENC
     - get rid of "-names"
     - use of generic node name "video-codec"

version 1:
   - Initial submission

Hugues Fruchet (5):
   dt-bindings: media: Document STM32MP25 VDEC & VENC video codecs
   media: hantro: add support for STM32MP25 VDEC
   media: hantro: add support for STM32MP25 VENC
   arm64: dts: st: add video decoder support to stm32mp255
   arm64: dts: st: add video encoder support to stm32mp255

  .../media/st,stm32mp25-video-codec.yaml       |  50 ++++++++
  arch/arm64/boot/dts/st/stm32mp251.dtsi        |  12 ++
  arch/arm64/boot/dts/st/stm32mp255.dtsi        |  17 +++
  drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/Kconfig    |  14 ++-
  drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/Makefile   |   4 +
  .../media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c   |   4 +
  .../media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_hw.h    |   2 +
  .../platform/verisilicon/stm32mp25_vdec_hw.c  |  92 ++++++++++++++
  .../platform/verisilicon/stm32mp25_venc_hw.c  | 115 ++++++++++++++++++
  9 files changed, 307 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/st,stm32mp25-video-codec.yaml
  create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/stm32mp25_vdec_hw.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/stm32mp25_venc_hw.c