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Part 18 of 23 of the iPad 5 (J71t) series in this repository; merge after #123.

Problem

The device descriptors had no way to say whether a board supports a warm restart, and J71t's feature states did not follow what has been seen on the hardware.

Change

Add the warm_restart feature (working on J71t, untested elsewhere), update J71t's states, document the config READMEs, and resolve VXD temporal direct references by timestamp so the high-profile H.264 streams decode correctly. The compatibility matrix is regenerated.

Testing

  • Hardware: iPad 5 Wi-Fi (J71t). Hands-on testing on 2026-11-11 with an integrated build of this series, made before the final failure-path fixes, covered warm restart and H.264 decoding.
  • 2026-11-12: 20+ warm restarts (kexec), several right after a glmark2 run, completed without a freeze, which is what warm_restart = "working" on J71t stands for.
  • Host: the Linux test suite passes at this branch's head, and the kernel and m1n1 patch series apply on apple-16k and apple-4k. At the top of the series the applied kernel tree is identical to the one in the built release image.
  • Other boards that share these drivers or compatibles have not been tested.

Dependencies

Depends on #123.

This branch is stacked on the PRs it depends on and carries their commits; the change of this PR is its last commit, "j71t: Evidence-backed feature registry and warm restart feature".

This update keeps the branch's earlier history: it merges the current base into the branch and adds the reworked change as a new commit on top.

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@brkosebay brkosebay changed the title J71t evidence-backed feature registry j71t: Evidence-backed feature registry and warm restart feature Nov 12, 2026
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kernel: Decode H.264 temporal direct pictures with the right references
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The VXD decoder took the slots of a co-located picture's stored motion
as indexes into the current request's reference list, but userspace
may reorder that list between requests (FFmpeg does), so temporal
direct B pictures could use the wrong reference: smeared or blocky
frames. Each picture now keeps its slot-to-timestamp map and the slots
are resolved by timestamp. Same decoder on the iPad 5, 6 and 7.

From orchard PR OrchardLinux#111 (commit 883f1ea), media patch 0013 there.
@henrikklee henrikklee changed the title j71t: Evidence-backed feature registry and warm restart feature kernel: Decode H.264 temporal direct pictures with the right references Nov 12, 2026
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Landing the H.264 temporal direct fix (media 0013) as your commit; it applies to the iPad 5, 6 and 7. Not taken from this PR: the device-feature tool and the feature table it reads (feature states must not act as switches), the warm_restart feature (it comes back with the warm restart topic), the qualification note and the config README sections. Your point that RTC presence, alarm and wake (and cover polling vs cover wake) need separate feature names is noted for the catalog. Your previous head is kept as tag contrib/brkosebay-j71t-feature-states.

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henrikklee merged commit 8ea3182 into OrchardLinux:main Nov 12, 2026
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brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
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Merge upstream main into j71t/psci
8c737f8 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.
brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
@brkosebay
Merge the j71t/psci branch into j71t/pmu-rtc
72ca165 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.

This branch's own patches in drivers/usb are renumbered to follow
main's.
brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
@brkosebay
Merge the j71t/pmu-rtc branch into j71t/warm-storage
bfb58aa 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.

This branch's own patches in devices/s8000, drivers/base and drivers/usb
are renumbered to follow main's.
brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
@brkosebay
Merge the j71t/warm-storage branch into j71t/warm-peripherals
86c47ee 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.

This branch's own patches in devices/s8000, drivers/base and drivers/usb
are renumbered to follow main's.
brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
@brkosebay
Merge the j71t/warm-peripherals branch into j71t/warm-kernel
2de73b0 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.

This branch's own patches in devices/s8000, drivers/base,
drivers/pmdomain and drivers/usb are renumbered to follow main's.
brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
@brkosebay
Merge the j71t/warm-kernel branch into j71t/reset-guard
172c287 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.

This branch's own patches in devices/s8000, drivers/base,
drivers/pmdomain and drivers/usb are renumbered to follow main's.
brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
@brkosebay
Merge the j71t/reset-guard branch into j71t/suspend
934d6c5 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.

This branch's own patches in devices/s8000, devices/t8010, drivers/base,
drivers/media, drivers/pmdomain, drivers/power and drivers/usb are
renumbered to follow main's.

Main's versions apply first now, so 0011 in drivers/media keep their
change with a diff regenerated for the new context.
brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
@brkosebay
Merge the j71t/suspend branch into apple-g5p-render
e040874 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.

This branch's own patches in devices/s8000, devices/s8003,
devices/t8010, drivers/base, drivers/media, drivers/pmdomain,
drivers/power and drivers/usb are renumbered to follow main's.

Main's versions apply first now, so 0011 in drivers/media keep their
change with a diff regenerated for the new context.
brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
@brkosebay
Merge the apple-g5p-render branch into j71t/g5p-pipeline
a8e4e7a 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.

This branch's own patches in devices/s8000, devices/s8003,
devices/t8010, drivers/base, drivers/media, drivers/pmdomain,
drivers/power and drivers/usb are renumbered to follow main's.

Main's versions apply first now, so 0011 in drivers/media keep their
change with a diff regenerated for the new context.
brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
@brkosebay
Merge the j71t/g5p-pipeline branch into j71t/g5p-suspend
7a6370c 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.

This branch's own patches in devices/s8000, devices/s8003,
devices/t8010, drivers/base, drivers/media, drivers/pmdomain,
drivers/power, drivers/soc-apple and drivers/usb are renumbered to
follow main's.

Main's versions apply first now, so 0011 in drivers/media keep their
change with a diff regenerated for the new context.
brkosebay added a commit to brkosebay/hardware that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
@brkosebay
Merge the j71t/g5p-suspend branch into j71t/gpu-handover
f97a7d0 
Bring this branch onto current main. Main has since merged OrchardLinux#124, OrchardLinux#122,
OrchardLinux#118, OrchardLinux#121, OrchardLinux#110, OrchardLinux#127, OrchardLinux#101, OrchardLinux#126, OrchardLinux#108 and OrchardLinux#111, several in part or
reworked, and OrchardLinux#123 and OrchardLinux#128 were closed. Where main carries a topic,
main's version is kept; the left-out parts that warm restart and
suspend need come back in OrchardLinux#107 and OrchardLinux#117.

This branch's own patches in devices/s8000, devices/s8003,
devices/t8010, drivers/base, drivers/media, drivers/pmdomain,
drivers/power, drivers/soc-apple and drivers/usb are renumbered to
follow main's.

Main's versions apply first now, so 0011 in drivers/media keep their
change with a diff regenerated for the new context.
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Checked on an iPad 5 (J71t) on 2026-11-13 with a user install image built from main 8ea3182 plus the open 0.4 PRs (top j71t/gpu-handover), installed with orchard install from DFU, then a cold boot from DFU and a warm restart (kexec) from the desktop.

Confirmed: the H.264 temporal direct fix works. 4/4 H.264 streams, including the B-frame/temporal-direct stream that used to fail, match the software decode frame for frame on the hardware (v4l2-request).

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