Re: [PATCH v8 0/7] TDA1997x HDMI video reciver

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On 02/08/18 12:56, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 02/08/18 11:46, Philipp Zabel wrote:
>> On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 23:19 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>> On 02/07/2018 11:05 PM, Tim Harvey wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 1:09 AM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On 02/07/18 09:22, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>>>>> On 02/07/2018 12:29 AM, Tim Harvey wrote:
>>>>>>> Media Controller ioctls:
>>>>>>>                 fail: v4l2-test-media.cpp(141): ent.function ==
>>>>>>> MEDIA_ENT_F_V4L2_SUBDEV_UNKNOWN
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Weird, this shouldn't happen. I'll look into this a bit more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you run 'mc_nextgen_test -e -i' and post the output?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's found in contrib/test.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> root@ventana:~# ./v4l-utils/contrib/test/mc_nextgen_test -e -i
>>>> Device: imx-media (driver imx-media)
>>>> Bus:
>>>> version: 0
>>>> number of entities: 24
>>>> number of interfaces: 24
>>>> number of pads: 48
>>>> number of links: 50
>>>> entity entity#1: 'unknown entity type' adv7180 2-0020, 1 pad(s), 1 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#3: 'unknown entity type' tda19971 2-0048, 1 pad(s), 1 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#5: 'unknown entity type' ipu1_vdic, 3 pad(s), 2 sink(s),
>>>> 1 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#9: 'unknown entity type' ipu2_vdic, 3 pad(s), 2 sink(s),
>>>> 1 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#13: 'unknown entity type' ipu1_ic_prp, 3 pad(s), 1
>>>> sink(s), 2 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#17: 'unknown entity type' ipu1_ic_prpenc, 2 pad(s), 1
>>>> sink(s), 1 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#20: 'V4L I/O' ipu1_ic_prpenc capture, 1 pad(s), 1 sink(s)
>>>> entity entity#26: 'unknown entity type' ipu1_ic_prpvf, 2 pad(s), 1
>>>> sink(s), 1 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#29: 'V4L I/O' ipu1_ic_prpvf capture, 1 pad(s), 1 sink(s)
>>>> entity entity#35: 'unknown entity type' ipu2_ic_prp, 3 pad(s), 1
>>>> sink(s), 2 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#39: 'unknown entity type' ipu2_ic_prpenc, 2 pad(s), 1
>>>> sink(s), 1 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#42: 'V4L I/O' ipu2_ic_prpenc capture, 1 pad(s), 1 sink(s)
>>>> entity entity#48: 'unknown entity type' ipu2_ic_prpvf, 2 pad(s), 1
>>>> sink(s), 1 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#51: 'V4L I/O' ipu2_ic_prpvf capture, 1 pad(s), 1 sink(s)
>>>> entity entity#57: 'unknown entity type' ipu1_csi0, 3 pad(s), 1
>>>> sink(s), 2 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#61: 'V4L I/O' ipu1_csi0 capture, 1 pad(s), 1 sink(s)
>>>> entity entity#67: 'unknown entity type' ipu1_csi1, 3 pad(s), 1
>>>> sink(s), 2 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#71: 'V4L I/O' ipu1_csi1 capture, 1 pad(s), 1 sink(s)
>>>> entity entity#77: 'unknown entity type' ipu2_csi0, 3 pad(s), 1
>>>> sink(s), 2 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#81: 'V4L I/O' ipu2_csi0 capture, 1 pad(s), 1 sink(s)
>>>> entity entity#87: 'unknown entity type' ipu2_csi1, 3 pad(s), 1
>>>> sink(s), 2 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#91: 'V4L I/O' ipu2_csi1 capture, 1 pad(s), 1 sink(s)
>>>> entity entity#97: 'unknown entity type' ipu1_csi0_mux, 3 pad(s), 2
>>>> sink(s), 1 source(s)
>>>> entity entity#101: 'unknown entity type' ipu2_csi1_mux, 3 pad(s), 2
>>>> sink(s), 1 source(s)
>>>
>>> Yuck. So nobody in imx (and adv7180!) is setting a valid function.
>>> And I see the mc_nextgen_test.c doesn't know all the latest functions
>>> anyway.
>>
>> That's probably because for most of the entities it's a bit unclear
>> which function should be assigned.
> 
> Well, that's one reason. The other is that there never was a utility
> to test this :-)
> 
>> ipu[12]_csi[01]_mux are video multiplexers, so MEDIA_ENT_F_VID_MUX. I
>> thought those should already be set correctly in the video-mux driver.
> 
> They are. The mc_nextgen_test, media-ctl and now v4l2-ctl/v4l2-compliance
> all have their own list of functions that they know about and it's all
> different. It's one of the things I want to fix.
> 
>> ipu[12]_csi[01] are the interfaces to the outside parallel busses, but
>> they can also 'downscale' by skipping, skip frames and pack or expand
>> pixels from the bus into the internal FIFOs that lead to the next
>> element. These are not MEDIA_ENT_F_VID_IF_BRIDGE, are they?
> 
> Yes, they are. One limitation of the current API is that you cannot
> represent correctly devices with multiple functions. This is planned for
> a long time now, but nobody actually did the work. So for now just fill
> in the primary function with a comment that in the future other functions
> should be set as well.
> 
>> ipu[12]_vdic are mainly deinterlacers, so a new function
>> MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_DEINTERLACER ? These entities could also be used
>> as composers in a mem2mem scenario (MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_COMPOSER ?),
>> but this is currently not supported.
> 
> Yes, we need a PROC_VIDEO_DEINTERLACER function.
> 
>>
>> ipu[12]_ic_prp is just a tee element that feeds both ipu[12]_ic_prpenc
>> and ipu[12]_ic_prpvf. These are both scalers and colorspace converters.
>> MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_SCALER ?
>> MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_PIXEL_ENC_CONV ?
> 
> The tee element would be a new PROC_VIDEO_SPLITTER function.
> 
> The other two would be scalers, but should add the VIDEO_PIXEL_ENC_CONV
> function once it is possible to do so.
> 
>>
>> "ipu[12]_csi[01] capture" are the DMA elements writing to memory, so
>> MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_PIXEL_FORMATTER ?
> 
> These are likely to be filled correctly already. I've just added a commit
> to v4l2-compliance to make it easier to see what function is used:
> 
> 	v4l2-compliance -m0 -v

Actually, can you run this using the latest v4l-utils version for the imx
and post the output?

Regards,

	Hans



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