[PATCH 0/3] Add Amlogic stateless H.264 video decoder for S4

[Ferass El Hafidi]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:08, Zhentao Guo <zhentao.guo at amlogic.com> wrote:
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>>> On 27 Oct 2025, at 9:42 am, Zhentao Guo via B4 Relay <devnull+zhentao.guo.amlogic.com at kernel.org> wrote:
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>>> Introduce initial driver support for Amlogic's new video acceleration
>>> hardware architecture, designed for video stream decoding.
>>>
>>> Compared to the current Amlogic video decoder hardware architecture,
>>> this new implementation eliminates the Esparser hardware component,
>>> enabling direct vb2 buffer input. The driver is designed to support
>>> the V4L2 M2M stateless decoder API. The initial phase includes support
>>> for H.264 decoding on Amlogic S805X2 platform.
>> It would be nice if you can outline the additional hardware the driver
>> plans to support so reviewers have perspective on where we are now, and
>> what more be coming? - the community would also like to understand if
>> this driver will supersede the stalled driver attempt in staging.
>Yes, we will follow Amlogic's overall upstream progress to support more 
>hardware
>platforms in the future. The next step will be adding support for 
>A311D2(T7) platform.
>We also plan to replace the stalled driver with the new stateless 
>decoder driver.
>The new stateless driver is fully compatible with the old G12/SM1 
>platforms, making
>this transition feasible.

That's awesome news! But how about the older platforms such as GXBB
(S905), GXL (S905X) and AXG (A113D)? Will support for them also be added
or not?

I and probably many other people still have interest on these older
SoCs.. they otherwise run Mainline linux mostly fine, so if a working
vdec driver comes along for these, that would be great!

Best regards,
Ferass