On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 08:52:11AM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> Quite often, the HW get stuck in error condition if a stream error
> was detected. As documented, the HW should stop immediately and self
> reset. There is likely a problem or a miss-understanding of the self
> self reset mechanism, as unless we make a long pause, the next command
> will then report an error even if there is no error in it.
>
> Disabling error detection fixes the issue, and let the decoder continue
> after an error. This patch is safe for backport into older kernels.
>
> Fixes: cd33c830448b ("media: rkvdec: Add the rkvdec driver")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This is effectively how ChromeOS previously was using this hardware for
years. When moving to the upstream/staging driver, this started giving
us problems. This fix is helpful; we'd rather sacrifice error detection
for now, to avoid hanging the hardware in error cases ;)
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
