Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add Amlogic stateless H.264 video decoder for S4

From: Ferass El Hafidi <funderscore@postmarketos.org>
To: linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org,
	Zhentao Guo <zhentao.guo@amlogic.com>,
	Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@gmail.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
	Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>,
	Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>,
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	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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	linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add Amlogic stateless H.264 video decoder for S4
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:50:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <t4xy6q.vhi5j58gpfcw@postmarketos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8e0391-c73f-4913-88e1-0a278d99f90d@amlogic.com>

On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:08, Zhentao Guo <zhentao.guo@amlogic.com> wrote:
>
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>>> On 27 Oct 2025, at 9:42 am, Zhentao Guo via B4 Relay <devnull+zhentao.guo.amlogic.com@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Introduce initial driver support for Amlogic's new video acceleration
>>> hardware architecture, designed for video stream decoding.
>>>
>>> Compared to the current Amlogic video decoder hardware architecture,
>>> this new implementation eliminates the Esparser hardware component,
>>> enabling direct vb2 buffer input. The driver is designed to support
>>> the V4L2 M2M stateless decoder API. The initial phase includes support
>>> for H.264 decoding on Amlogic S805X2 platform.
>> It would be nice if you can outline the additional hardware the driver
>> plans to support so reviewers have perspective on where we are now, and
>> what more be coming? - the community would also like to understand if
>> this driver will supersede the stalled driver attempt in staging.
>Yes, we will follow Amlogic's overall upstream progress to support more 
>hardware
>platforms in the future. The next step will be adding support for 
>A311D2(T7) platform.
>We also plan to replace the stalled driver with the new stateless 
>decoder driver.
>The new stateless driver is fully compatible with the old G12/SM1 
>platforms, making
>this transition feasible.

That's awesome news! But how about the older platforms such as GXBB
(S905), GXL (S905X) and AXG (A113D)? Will support for them also be added
or not?

I and probably many other people still have interest on these older
SoCs.. they otherwise run Mainline linux mostly fine, so if a working
vdec driver comes along for these, that would be great!

Best regards,
Ferass

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