[PATCH 4/7] drivers: staging: media: sunxi: cedrus: add H616 variant

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM Jernej Škrabec <jernej.skrabec at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dne sobota, 30. maj 2026 ob 18:43:05 Srednjeevropski poletni čas je Chen-Yu Tsai napisal(a):
> > On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 7:18 PM Jernej Škrabec <jernej.skrabec at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Dne torek, 5. maj 2026 ob 15:48:08 Srednjeevropski poletni čas je Chen-Yu Tsai napisal(a):
> > > > The Allwinner H616 SoC has a video engine hardware block like the one
> > > > found on previous generations such as the H6. In addition to the
> > > > currently supported features of the H6, it is also supposed to include
> > >
> > > Remove "supposed".
> >
> > I can't actually verify that, so "supposed" is accurate from my point of
> > view.
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> Isn't info from manual good enough?

The manual says the SoC supports it. Same was said for the H6. Then
we discovered that the VP9 decoder was a separate Hantro block.

So again, *I* cannot claim in the commit message that the hardware
block supports VP9 decoding, because I have not verified it.

> In the interest of unblocking this, I would be fine with "supposed" too,
> but manual and all my experiments show VP9 is supported.

Please give an ack or reviewed-by with a comment at the end stating
VP9 verified.


Thanks
ChenYu


> Best regards,
> Jernej
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> > ChenYu
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> > > > a VP9 decoder. However software support for this is currently missing
> > > > and still needs to be reverse engineered from the vendor BSP.
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> > > > Add the compatible for the H616 variant, using the H6 variant data.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at kernel.org>
> > >
> > > With that:
> > > Reviewed-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Jernej
> > >
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