On 13/12/2024 20:00, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
Hope this hardcoding of node name is historical ?
Hardcoding is historical in dts.
We need to add two more chips into venus before iris is merged and at
feature parity for HFI_6XX and above - HFI_GEN2
Something like this.
enum {
HFI_1XX
..
HFI_6XX
HFI_GEN2
..
};
> And not done for newer chips ?
HFI_6XX and above will be fully supported in "iris" with encoder/decoder
selection done at session creation time.
Iris is being added phased. Basic decoder with one format, followed by
decoder and additional formats.
Once we get to feature parity HFI_6XX and above will be supported in
Iris and removed from venus.
Leaving HFI_4XX and below.
That's a long winded way of saying new chips minted from the fab will
either be HFI_GEN2+ or HFI_6XX.
We discourage userspace on relying on node names cause it always leads to
complication and non-portable code.
Writing this driver from scratch - basically what HFI_6XX in Iris does,
you'd select encoder/decoder when you create the initial session - the
initial state.
For venus that's an unknown amount of work to do.
What we _could_ certainly do is make the static assignment in this
series assignable via a kernel parameter.
I'd say though that's an additional series on top of this.
First pass here is just to fix up the original sin, not to improve
selectivity, just yet.
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bod