Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:15:30 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 00/34] Qualcomm video encoder and decoder driver | From | Krzysztof Kozlowski <> |
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On 20/12/2023 07:32, Vikash Garodia wrote: >> From what I see from you bindings, the hardware is pretty close to what we see >> in the latest venus generations. I asssme that there was a change in the vcodec >> inteface to the firmware and other similar changes. Could you please point out, >> which parts of Venus driver do no longer work or are not applicable for sm8550 > > The motivation behind having a separate IRIS driver was discussed earlier in [1] > In the same discussion, it was ellaborated on how the impact would be with > change in the new firmware interface and other video layers in the driver. I can > add this in cover letter in the next revision. > > We see some duplication of code and to handle the same, the series brings in a > common code reusability between iris and venus. Aligning the common peices of > venus and iris will be a work in progress, once we land the base driver for iris. > > Again qualcomm video team does not have a plan to support sm8550/x1e80100 on
If you want it to get merged, then create such plan, please.
> venus as the changes are too interleaved to absorb in venus driver. And there is > significant interest in community to start validating video driver on sm8550 or > x1e80100.
Community does not want duplicated drivers leading to maintenance costs. Your approach to this is not how upstreaming process works.
Best regards, Krzysztof
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