Sure, but it's implemented if I understood the OP right:
You did not. VP9 HW decoding is supported only by H6. I guess compatibility matrix would be clearer.
We really need this project to continue. There is a bunch of h616/h618 devices (tv boxes) out there that are still waiting for official support.
Yeah, that won't happen anytime soon. Display driver accumulated so much technical debt that it needs to be considerably reworked in order to support H616 and newer SoCs properly. While obviously there are PoC versions out there, mostly based on my early work, none of that works good enough for Kodi needs (Kodi needs features most other software doesn't need). Videos wouldn't be rendered properly in plenty of cases, so this forum would be spammed with a lot of "it doesn't work" messages.
I started working on this redesign of display driver, but it's slow process, since I work on it only in my spare time. However, good thing is that redesign will also solve years old issues for existing devices like occasional glitches, especially during start or end of playback.