Hi Down you have my tentative of connection I need to hack a bit to have tuner registered. I'm using imx-media On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:48 PM Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 1:11 PM Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 12/07/2018 12:51 PM, Jagan Teki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We have some unconventional setup for parallel CSI design where analog > > > input data is converted into to digital composite using PAL decoder > > > and it feed to adv7180, camera sensor. > > > > > > Analog input => Video PAL Decoder => ADV7180 => IPU-CSI0 > > > > Just PAL? No NTSC support? > > > For now does not matter. I have registere the TUNER that support it > but seems that media-ctl is not suppose to work with the MEDIA_ENT_F_TUNER > > Is this correct? > > > > > > > The PAL decoder is I2C based, tda9885 chip. We setup it up via dt > > > bindings and the chip is > > > detected fine. > > > > > > But we need to know, is this to be part of media control subdev > > > pipeline? so-that we can configure pads, links like what we do on > > > conventional pipeline or it should not to be part of media pipeline? > > > > Yes, I would say it should be part of the pipeline. > > > > Ok I have created a draft patch to add the adv some new endpoint but > is sufficient to declare tuner type in media control? > > Michael > > > > > > > Please advise for best possible way to fit this into the design. > > > > > > Another observation is since the IPU has more than one sink, source > > > pads, we source or sink the other components on the pipeline but look > > > like the same thing seems not possible with adv7180 since if has only > > > one pad. If it has only one pad sourcing to adv7180 from tda9885 seems > > > not possible, If I'm not mistaken. > > > > Correct, in all cases where the adv7180 is used it is directly connected > > to the video input connector on a board. > > > > So to support this the adv7180 driver should be modified to add an input pad > > so you can connect the decoder. It will be needed at some point anyway once > > we add support for connector entities. > > > > Regards, > > > > Hans > > > > > > > > I tried to look for similar design in mainline, but I couldn't find > > > it. is there any design similar to this in mainline? > > > > > > Please let us know if anyone has any suggestions on this. > > > [ 3.379129] imx-media: ipu1_vdic:2 -> ipu1_ic_prp:0 [ 3.384262] imx-media: ipu2_vdic:2 -> ipu2_ic_prp:0 [ 3.389217] imx-media: ipu1_ic_prp:1 -> ipu1_ic_prpenc:0 [ 3.394616] imx-media: ipu1_ic_prp:2 -> ipu1_ic_prpvf:0 [ 3.399867] imx-media: ipu2_ic_prp:1 -> ipu2_ic_prpenc:0 [ 3.405289] imx-media: ipu2_ic_prp:2 -> ipu2_ic_prpvf:0 [ 3.410552] imx-media: ipu1_csi0:1 -> ipu1_ic_prp:0 [ 3.415502] imx-media: ipu1_csi0:1 -> ipu1_vdic:0 [ 3.420305] imx-media: ipu1_csi0_mux:5 -> ipu1_csi0:0 [ 3.425427] imx-media: ipu1_csi1:1 -> ipu1_ic_prp:0 [ 3.430328] imx-media: ipu1_csi1:1 -> ipu1_vdic:0 [ 3.435142] imx-media: ipu1_csi1_mux:5 -> ipu1_csi1:0 [ 3.440321] imx-media: adv7180 2-0020:1 -> ipu1_csi0_mux:4 with tuner: tuner@43 { compatible = "tuner"; reg = <0x43>; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_tuner>; ports { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; port@1 { reg = <1>; tuner_in: endpoint { remote-endpoint = <&tuner_out>; }; }; }; }; adv7180: camera@20 { compatible = "adi,adv7180"; reg = <0x20>; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_adv7180>; powerdown-gpios = <&gpio3 20 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>; /* PDEC_PWRDN */ ports { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; port@1 { reg = <1>; adv7180_to_ipu1_csi0_mux: endpoint { remote-endpoint = <&ipu1_csi0_mux_from_parallel_sensor>; bus-width = <8>; }; }; port@0 { reg = <0>; tuner_out: endpoint { remote-endpoint = <&tuner_in>; }; }; }; }; Any help is appreciate Michael > > > Jagan. > > > > > > > > --