linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/15] media: mtk-vcodec: support for MT8183 decoder

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Date:   Thu, 13 May 2021 17:06:35 +0900
From:   Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...omium.org>
To:     Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>
Cc:     Tiffany Lin <tiffany.lin@...iatek.com>,
        Andrew-CT Chen <andrew-ct.chen@...iatek.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Yunfei Dong <yunfei.dong@...iatek.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "moderated list:ARM/Mediatek SoC support" 
        <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/15] media: mtk-vcodec: support for MT8183 decoder

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:35 PM Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl> wrote:
>
> On 27/04/2021 13:15, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> > This series adds support for the stateless API into mtk-vcodec, by first
> > separating the stateful ops into their own source file, and introducing
> > a new set of ops suitable for stateless decoding. As such, support for
> > stateful decoders should remain completely unaffected.
> >
> > This series has been tested with both MT8183 and MT8173. Decoding was
> > working for both chips, and in the case of MT8173 no regression has been
> > noticed.
> >
> > Patches 1-9 add MT8183 support to the decoder using the stateless API.
> > MT8183 only support H.264 acceleration.
> >
> > Patches 10-15 are follow-ups that further improve compliance for the
> > decoder and encoder, by fixing support for commands on both. Patch 11
> > also makes sure that supported H.264 profiles are exported on MT8173.
>
> For a v5 I would recommend that - where possible - these 'improve compliance'
> patches are moved to the beginning of the series. That way they can be picked
> up quickly without having to wait for the whole series to be accepted.

Makes sense, the current order reflects the chronology these patches
have been written, but I agree that improving compliance should be
merged first. Let me try to reorder things a bit.

Cheers,
Alex.