Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] media: venus: enable venus on qcs615

[Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>]

On 05/06/2025 13:33, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 05/06/2025 14:30, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 at 13:13, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/06/2025 08:16, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>>>> On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 08:05:24AM +0800, Renjiang Han wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/31/2025 4:27 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 09:32:12AM +0530, Renjiang Han wrote:
>>>>>>> QCS615 uses the same video core as SC7180, so reuse the same resource
>>>>>>> data of SC7180 for QCS615 to enable video functionality.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are no resources for the video-decoder and video-encoder nodes
>>>>>>> in the device tree, so remove these two nodes from the device tree. In
>>>>>>> addition, to ensure that the video codec functions properly, use [3]
>>>>>>> to add encoder and decoder node entries in the venus driver.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Validated this series on QCS615 and SC7180.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Note:
>>>>>>> This series consist of DT patches and a venus driver patch. The patch
>>>>>>> 1/3, which is venus driver patch, can be picked independently without
>>>>>>> having any functional dependency. But patch 2/3 & patch 3/3, which are
>>>>>>> DT patches, still depend on [1].
>>>>>> I'd say 2/3 and 3/3 still depend on 1/3, otherwise we can get video core
>>>>>> on QCS615 over(?)clocked.
>>>>> Agree, so we need to make sure that the driver patch is not picked after the
>>>>> DT patch.
>>>>
>>>> Worse: we need to make sure that the driver patch is present in the
>>>> branch which picks up DT patches. Otherwise building & testing that
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, that's a NAK then (although depends what you mean by DT).
>>
>> I mean qcs615.dtsi. I'd suggest an immutable branch for the driver
> 
> Sorry, but no, DTS cannot depend on drivers. You CANNOT merge them into
> one branch.
> 
>> patch. Or just merging the patches in two consequent releases.
> 
> That's a new device nodes, new hardware so it should not be blocked by
> any driver patch. This is just totally broken process / patchset / work.
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof

Reading this thread, I don't think that is the case.

I don't see how patches 2/3 or 3/3 depend on 1/3.

The frequency table is a fallback in the driver and the DT changes are 
completely straight forward.

TBH, I think we are hitting an email comms/social barrier here, not a 
technical one.

@Renjiang can you please confirm that freq_table is a fallback, qcs615 
will work without OPP table and the DTS stuff doesn't depend on the driver.

TBH, I don't see how the DTS can or should but...

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