Re: [PATCH v1 07/18] media: hantro: Add a field to distinguish the hardware versions

Ezequiel Garcia
2021-02-17T20:16:27Z

On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 09:02 +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> Decoders hardware blocks could exist in multiple versions: add
> a field to distinguish them at runtime.
> Keep the default behavoir to be G1 hardware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro.h     | 5 +++++
>  drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro.h b/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro.h
> index bde65231f22f..2a566dfc2fe3 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro.h
> @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ struct hantro_codec_ops;
>  #define HANTRO_H264_DECODER    BIT(18)
>  #define HANTRO_DECODERS                0xffff0000
>
> +#define HANTRO_G1_REV          0x6731
> +#define HANTRO_G2_REV          0x6732
> +
>  /**
>   * struct hantro_irq - irq handler and name
>   *
> @@ -170,6 +173,7 @@ hantro_vdev_to_func(struct video_device *vdev)
>   * @enc_base:          Mapped address of VPU encoder register for convenience.
>   * @dec_base:          Mapped address of VPU decoder register for convenience.
>   * @ctrl_base:         Mapped address of VPU control block.
> + * @core_hw_dec_rev    Runtime detected HW decoder core revision
>   * @vpu_mutex:         Mutex to synchronize V4L2 calls.
>   * @irqlock:           Spinlock to synchronize access to data structures
>   *                     shared with interrupt handlers.
> @@ -189,6 +193,7 @@ struct hantro_dev {
>         void __iomem *enc_base;
>         void __iomem *dec_base;
>         void __iomem *ctrl_base;
> +       u32 core_hw_dec_rev;
>
>         struct mutex vpu_mutex; /* video_device lock */
>         spinlock_t irqlock;
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c b/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c
> index 0570047c7fa0..e1443c394f62 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c
> @@ -840,6 +840,8 @@ static int hantro_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         }
>         vpu->enc_base = vpu->reg_bases[0] + vpu->variant->enc_offset;
>         vpu->dec_base = vpu->reg_bases[0] + vpu->variant->dec_offset;
> +       /* by default decoder is G1 */
> +       vpu->core_hw_dec_rev = HANTRO_G1_REV;
>

What's the use of this field? Can't we simply rely on the compatible string?

Thanks,
Ezequiel