Re: [PATCH 2/2] media: iris: Enable Gen2 HFI on SC7280

[Dikshita Agarwal]

On 2/12/2026 5:13 PM, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 2/12/26 12:16 PM, Dikshita Agarwal wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/9/2026 6:05 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 05:04:48PM +0530, Dikshita Agarwal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2/9/2026 3:32 PM, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>>> On 2/9/26 10:45 AM, Dikshita Agarwal wrote:
>>>>>> SC7280 supports both Gen1 and Gen2 HFI firmware. The driver continues to
>>>>>> use Gen1 by default, but boards that intend to use Gen2 firmware can
>>>>>> opt‑in by specifying a Gen2 image through the Device Tree
>>>>>> 'firmware-name' property.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Based on this property and the availability of the referenced
>>>>>> firmware binary, the driver selects the appropriate HFI generation and
>>>>>> updates its platform data accordingly. Boards that do not
>>>>>> specify a Gen2 firmware, or where the firmware is not present,
>>>>>> automatically fall back to Gen1.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dikshita Agarwal <dikshita.agarwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>> To avoid accidental matches, I can switch to an exact filename match
>>>> instead. That way, only the specific Gen2 image (for example
>>>> "qcom/vpu/vpu20_p1_gen2.mbn") will trigger the Gen2 path, and boards that
>>>
>>> How do you detect that for the OEM-signed firmware, which can have
>>> random name?
>>>
>>>> want to use Gen2 can opt in by naming the firmware accordingly.
>>
>> I Explored on suggested alternative approaches and seeing some limitation
>> with the both of them:
>>
>> 1. Detecting Gen1/Gen2 by scanning the firmware blob (fw->data)
>> It is possible to parse QC_IMAGE_VERSION_STRING from the .mbn and  extract
>> the version string. The issues with this approach :
>>
>> - the version string has no explicit marker that identifies Gen1 vs Gen2.
>>
>> - This prefix is not a formal ABI, and it is not consistent across SoCs.
>> Each SoC family uses different naming patterns in the version string.
>>
>> Example : For SC7280 Gen1 we currently see:
>> QC_IMAGE_VERSION_STRING=video-firmware.1.0-<hash> while SM8250 has
>> QC_IMAGE_VERSION_STRING=VIDEO.VPU.1.0-00119-<>
>>
>> So the driver would need SoC‑specific string‑matching rules, which is hard
>> to maintain if we are looking for a design to address all available SOCs.
> 
> The only SoC with such distinction today is kodiak. So we can simply check:
> 
> if (kodiak && strstr(fw->data, "VIDEO.VPU.1.0.")
> 	hfi = gen2;

Agree, this works for Kodiak. However, Dmitry was also referring to other
SoCs that may support both Gen1 and Gen2, and at the moment there isn’t a
generic way to handle that check.

Also, please note that the Kodiak Gen1 firmware uses the string
video-firmware.1.0, whereas Gen2 uses VIDEO.VPU.3.4.

> 
> 
> Can we agree that VIDEO.VPU.x firmwares are hfigen2? If so, problem also
> solved for <=8450
> 

Nope. that's not true for all, SM8250 uses VIDEO.VPU.1.0 which is gen1.

Thanks,
Dikshita

> Konrad