Re: [PATCH] media: renesas: vsp1: blacklist r8a7795 ES1.*

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Laurent,

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 2:21 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 01:20:02PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > The earliest revision of these SoC may hang when underrunning. Later
> > revisions have that fixed. Bail out when we detect a problematic
> > version.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > The BSP tries to work around the issue, yet this is neither upstreamable
> > nor are we sure the solution is complete. Because the early SoC revision
> > is hardly in use, we simply "document" the problem upstream.
>
> The workaround isn't upstreamable as-is, but I think it could be
> upstreamed after being cleaned up.
>
> Overall, how much support do we still have upstream for H3 ES1.x, and do
> we need to keep it ? H3 ES.1x is relatively old, does someone still rely
> on it ?

I think the upstream support level for R-Car H3 ES1.x is about the same
as for H3 ES2.0.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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