On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 12:42:16PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 02:38:31PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > Enable on SM8750 MTP the Iris video codec for accelerated video
> > encoding/decoding.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Do not merge because firmware (hard-coded in the driver) is not released.
>
> I don't think we have been delaying enablement of the hardware for these
> reasons. The user might have other ways to get the firmware (or to
> disable the device) in DT.
>
At least with the venus driver, missing firmware would result in
sync_state never happening. I see there's some changes in that behavior
lately, so perhaps this has changed?
But I agree with you that it would be preferable to deal with this
shortcoming in the implementation, rather than holding back the hardware
description.
Regards,
Bjorn
> --
> With best wishes
> Dmitry