[PATCH v5 0/5] media: venus: Add QCM2290 support with AR50_LITE core

Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz
2025-06-26T13:59:38Z

Changes since v4:
- patch 1/5:
- added reviewed by: Krzysztof Kozlowski
- updated example section
- patch 2/5:
- added reviewed by: Bryan O'Donoghue
- Fixed Co-developed-by order
- patch 3/5:
- patch 4/5:
- removed encode-node (userspace exposure)
- fixed Co-developed-by order
- patch 5/5:
- fixed venus register region
- power-domain-names: one per line
- clock-names: one per line
- fixed interconnect tags
- empty line before subnode
- enable the venus node

Changes since v3:
- Fixed schema commit subject.

Changes since v2:
- Removed IS_HFI/IS_VPU macros
- checkpatch.pl --strict fixes:
- convert macro to static inline to avoid argument reuse side effect

Changes since v1:
- Added IS_HFI macro usage
- Moved schema patch to top
- Fixed commit messages

This patch series adds support for the Venus video decoder/encoder block
present on the Qualcomm QCM2290.

Only video decoding is supported in this set - video encoding should
follow up in the coming weeks.

The QCM2290 integrates an AR50_LITE core, a low-power implementation of
Venus supporting H.264, HEVC (H.265), and VP9 decoding.

The series includes:
- DT binding schema for qcom,qcm2290-venus
- SoC integration via qcm2290.dtsi
- Resource table definitions and frequency scaling
- Platform capability registration for the AR50_LITE core decoding block.

Decoding was verified on the QCOM RB1 platform using GStreamer with V4L2-based
decode plugins. The following pipelines were used for playback 1280x720 and
1920x1080 H.264, HEVC and VP9 videos from https://www.elecard.com/videos.

[H.264]
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=videos/xxxxx.mp4 \
! qtdemux name=demux demux.video_0 ! queue ! h264parse ! v4l2h264dec \
! videoconvert ! autovideosink

[H.265]
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=videos/xxxxx.mp4 \
! qtdemux name=demux demux.video_0 ! queue ! h265parse ! v4l2h265dec \
! videoconvert ! autovideosink

[VP9]
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=videos/xxxxx.webm \
! matroskademux ! queue ! v4l2vp9dec \
! videoconvert ! autovideosink

[Fluster]
The H.264 decoder was also tested using the Fluster test suite
(version: v0.4.0-12-g33566abd0964).
Target: GStreamer-H.264-V4L2-Gst1.0, Test Suite: JVT-AVC_V1
Result: 126/135 tests passed
Failures:
FM1_BT_B, FM1_FT_E, FM2_SVA_C, BA3_SVA_C, SP1_BT_A,
SP2_BT_B, MR6_BT_B, MR7_BT_B, MR8_BT_B

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Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz (5):
media: dt-bindings: venus: Add qcm2290 dt schema
media: venus: vdec: AR50_LITE video core support
media: venus: hfi_plat_v6_lite: Populate decode capabilities
media: venus: core: Add qcm2290 DT compatible and resource data
arm64: dts: qcom: qcm2290: Add venus video node

.../bindings/media/qcom,qcm2290-venus.yaml | 127 +++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qcm2290.dtsi | 57 +++++++
drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.c | 50 +++++-
drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h | 11 +-
drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c | 8 +-
drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/helpers.c | 80 ++++++++++
drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/helpers.h | 2 +
.../media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_helper.h | 10 +-
.../media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_platform.c | 2 +
.../media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_platform.h | 1 +
.../qcom/venus/hfi_platform_v6_lite.c | 148 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_venus.c | 14 +-
.../media/platform/qcom/venus/pm_helpers.c | 1 +
drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c | 15 +-
15 files changed, 503 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,qcm2290-venus.yaml
create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_platform_v6_lite.c

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