Re: [PATCH 1/2] media: verisilicon: Remove deprecated variant

From: Frank Li

Date: Wed Sep 23 2026 - 11:00:07 EST


On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:

suggest subject: Remove deprecated nxp,imx8mq-vpu nxp variant

> "nxp,imx8mq-vpu" is tagged as deprecated since:
> commit f3116f2e52e6 ("media: dt-bindings: media: nxp, imx8mq-vpu: Split G1 and G2 nodes")
> merged since v5.17-rc1.
> There is more reference to it since that.
> Remove for driver and Documentation to clean up the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/media/nxp,imx8mq-vpu.yaml | 2 -

I am not sure if it is okay to combine bindng doc into one patch.

Generally remove driver code, then remove binding doc.

> .../media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c | 1 -
> .../media/platform/verisilicon/imx8m_vpu_hw.c | 60 -------------------
> 3 files changed, 63 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/nxp,imx8mq-vpu.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/nxp,imx8mq-vpu.yaml
> index 19528262810a5..504ea45355dbc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/nxp,imx8mq-vpu.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/nxp,imx8mq-vpu.yaml
> @@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ description:
> properties:
> compatible:
> oneOf:
> - - const: nxp,imx8mq-vpu
> - deprecated: true
> - const: nxp,imx8mq-vpu-g1
> - const: nxp,imx8mq-vpu-g2
> - const: nxp,imx8mm-vpu-g1

Rob bot suggest change to use
enum
- nxp,imx8mq-vpu-g1
...

Frank

> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c b/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c
> index ad71c0402ef3b..70de47ddb023b 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/hantro_drv.c
> @@ -725,7 +725,6 @@ static const struct of_device_id of_hantro_match[] = {
> #endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_VIDEO_HANTRO_IMX8M
> { .compatible = "nxp,imx8mm-vpu-g1", .data = &imx8mm_vpu_g1_variant, },
> - { .compatible = "nxp,imx8mq-vpu", .data = &imx8mq_vpu_variant, },
> { .compatible = "nxp,imx8mq-vpu-g1", .data = &imx8mq_vpu_g1_variant },
> { .compatible = "nxp,imx8mq-vpu-g2", .data = &imx8mq_vpu_g2_variant },
> #endif
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/imx8m_vpu_hw.c b/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/imx8m_vpu_hw.c
> index fa4224de4b996..3b63f626d33f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/imx8m_vpu_hw.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/verisilicon/imx8m_vpu_hw.c
> @@ -42,38 +42,6 @@ static void imx8m_soft_reset(struct hantro_dev *vpu, u32 reset_bits)
> writel(val, vpu->ctrl_base + CTRL_SOFT_RESET);
> }
>
> -static void imx8m_clk_enable(struct hantro_dev *vpu, u32 clock_bits)
> -{
> - u32 val;
> -
> - val = readl(vpu->ctrl_base + CTRL_CLOCK_ENABLE);
> - val |= clock_bits;
> - writel(val, vpu->ctrl_base + CTRL_CLOCK_ENABLE);
> -}
> -
> -static int imx8mq_runtime_resume(struct hantro_dev *vpu)
> -{
> - int ret;
> -
> - ret = clk_bulk_prepare_enable(vpu->variant->num_clocks, vpu->clocks);
> - if (ret) {
> - dev_err(vpu->dev, "Failed to enable clocks\n");
> - return ret;
> - }
> -
> - imx8m_soft_reset(vpu, RESET_G1 | RESET_G2);
> - imx8m_clk_enable(vpu, CLOCK_G1 | CLOCK_G2);
> -
> - /* Set values of the fuse registers */
> - writel(0xffffffff, vpu->ctrl_base + CTRL_G1_DEC_FUSE);
> - writel(0xffffffff, vpu->ctrl_base + CTRL_G1_PP_FUSE);
> - writel(0xffffffff, vpu->ctrl_base + CTRL_G2_DEC_FUSE);
> -
> - clk_bulk_disable_unprepare(vpu->variant->num_clocks, vpu->clocks);
> -
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> /*
> * Supported formats.
> */
> @@ -234,13 +202,6 @@ static const struct hantro_fmt imx8m_vpu_g2_dec_fmts[] = {
> },
> };
>
> -static int imx8mq_vpu_hw_init(struct hantro_dev *vpu)
> -{
> - vpu->ctrl_base = vpu->reg_bases[vpu->variant->num_regs - 1];
> -
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> static void imx8m_vpu_g1_reset(struct hantro_ctx *ctx)
> {
> struct hantro_dev *vpu = ctx->dev;
> @@ -319,30 +280,9 @@ static const struct hantro_irq imx8mq_g2_irqs[] = {
> { "g2", hantro_g2_irq },
> };
>
> -static const char * const imx8mq_clk_names[] = { "g1", "g2", "bus" };
> -static const char * const imx8mq_reg_names[] = { "g1", "g2", "ctrl" };
> static const char * const imx8mq_g1_clk_names[] = { "g1" };
> static const char * const imx8mq_g2_clk_names[] = { "g2" };
>
> -const struct hantro_variant imx8mq_vpu_variant = {
> - .dec_fmts = imx8m_vpu_dec_fmts,
> - .num_dec_fmts = ARRAY_SIZE(imx8m_vpu_dec_fmts),
> - .postproc_fmts = imx8m_vpu_postproc_fmts,
> - .num_postproc_fmts = ARRAY_SIZE(imx8m_vpu_postproc_fmts),
> - .postproc_ops = &hantro_g1_postproc_ops,
> - .codec = HANTRO_MPEG2_DECODER | HANTRO_VP8_DECODER |
> - HANTRO_H264_DECODER,
> - .codec_ops = imx8mq_vpu_codec_ops,
> - .init = imx8mq_vpu_hw_init,
> - .runtime_resume = imx8mq_runtime_resume,
> - .irqs = imx8mq_irqs,
> - .num_irqs = ARRAY_SIZE(imx8mq_irqs),
> - .clk_names = imx8mq_clk_names,
> - .num_clocks = ARRAY_SIZE(imx8mq_clk_names),
> - .reg_names = imx8mq_reg_names,
> - .num_regs = ARRAY_SIZE(imx8mq_reg_names)
> -};
> -
> static const struct of_device_id imx8mq_vpu_shared_resources[] = {
> { .compatible = "nxp,imx8mq-vpu-g1", },
> { .compatible = "nxp,imx8mq-vpu-g2", },
> --
> 2.53.0
>
>