Re: [PATCH v5 8/8] media: qcom: venus: Enable HEVC decoding for MSM8939

[Bryan O'Donoghue <bod@kernel.org>]

On 07/05/2026 09:32, Erikas Bitovtas wrote:
> MSM8939 supports HEVC decoding. Do not disable the HEVC codec HFI bit
> and add it to codec type converter method so it can be recognized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erikas Bitovtas <xerikasxx@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.c       | 2 ++
>   drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_parser.c | 3 ++-
>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.c
> index 6ad20d58dda2..89798ad1087b 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.c
> @@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ static void venus_sys_error_handler(struct work_struct *work)
>   static u32 to_v4l2_codec_type(u32 codec)
>   {
>   	switch (codec) {
> +	case HFI_VIDEO_CODEC_HEVC:
> +		return V4L2_PIX_FMT_HEVC;
>   	case HFI_VIDEO_CODEC_H264:
>   		return V4L2_PIX_FMT_H264;
>   	case HFI_VIDEO_CODEC_H263:
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_parser.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_parser.c
> index 92765f9c8873..178274d10c02 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_parser.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_parser.c
> @@ -207,7 +207,8 @@ static int parse_codecs(struct venus_core *core, void *data)
>   	core->enc_codecs = codecs->enc_codecs;
> 
>   	if (IS_V1(core)) {
> -		core->dec_codecs &= ~HFI_VIDEO_CODEC_HEVC;
> +		if (!device_is_compatible(core->dev, "qcom,msm8939-venus"))
> +			core->dec_codecs &= ~HFI_VIDEO_CODEC_HEVC;
Stylistically I think this should be a flag in a struct.

I'm not a big fan of doing a bunch of strstr()/strcmp() generally. If 
you extend the struct venus_resource in some way - I think this will 
work better and be more runtime friendly.

u32 dec_codecs_blacklist; perhaps

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bod