[PATCH v5 11/14] dt-bindings: media: mediatek: vcodec: add decoder dt-bindings for mt8196

[Conor Dooley]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 05:39:24AM +0000, Kyrie Wu (吴晗) wrote:
> On Wed, 2026-06-03 at 17:14 +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 04:40:41PM +0800, Kyrie Wu wrote:
> > > From: Yunfei Dong <yunfei.dong at mediatek.com>
> > > 
> > > The MT8196 decoder differs from previous generations in several
> > > key aspects, most notably in its use of VCP instead of SCP.
> > > Additionally, the MT8196 enhances codec capabilities by supporting
> > > HEVC Main10 profile decoding. To accommodate these hardware
> > > changes,
> > > the binding constraints specify a total of 12 clock inputs,
> > > consisting of 9 decoder clocks and 3 VCP interface clocks,
> > > along with 2 power domains covering both the decoder and VCP
> > > subsystems.
> > 
> > I'm pretty pretty confused by this statement about constraints, since
> > there's none added?
> > The vcodec-dec node doesn't even seem to permit clocks at all?
> > 
> Dear Conor,
> 
> I apologize for any confusion my commit message caused. What I wanted
> to convey was the hardware differences between the MT8196 and previous
> ICs. If you feel that the VCP and clock information are not suitable
> for this location, I would like to rewrite the commit message as
> follows:
> Compared to previous ICs, the MT8196 supports a 10-bit decoder and has
> a decoding capability of 4K at 120fps, using a dual hardware decoding
> architecture of LAT+CORE.

Sure? But your comments about the constraints are odd and I do not know
if that means you omitted changing constraints when you should have?
For example, using lat+core only permits you 10 input clocks but your
commit message talks about 12.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Kyrie.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Yunfei Dong <yunfei.dong at mediatek.com>
> > > Acked-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne at collabora.com>
> > > ---
> > >  .../bindings/media/mediatek,vcodec-subdev-decoder.yaml           | 
> > > 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git
> > > a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/mediatek,vcodec-subdev-
> > > decoder.yaml
> > > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/mediatek,vcodec-subdev-
> > > decoder.yaml
> > > index bf8082d87ac0..74e1d88d3056 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/mediatek,vcodec-
> > > subdev-decoder.yaml
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/mediatek,vcodec-
> > > subdev-decoder.yaml
> > > @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ properties:
> > >        - mediatek,mt8186-vcodec-dec
> > >        - mediatek,mt8188-vcodec-dec
> > >        - mediatek,mt8195-vcodec-dec
> > > +      - mediatek,mt8196-vcodec-dec
> > >  
> > >    reg:
> > >      minItems: 1
> > > -- 
> > > 2.45.2
> > > 
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