Re: [RFC V2 0/5] arm64: dts: imx8mm: Enable CSI and OV5640 Camera

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On 28.10.21 02:39, Adam Ford wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 7:16 AM Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> [Adding Frieder on Cc]
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 5:35 PM Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> The imx8mm appears to have both a CSI bridge and mipi-csi-2 drivers.  With
>>> those enabled, both the imx8mm-evk and imx8mm-beacon boards should be able
>>> use an OV5640 camera.
>>>
>>> The mipi-csi2 driver sets the clock frequency to 333MHz, so the clock parent
>>> of the CSI1 must be reparented to a faster clock.  On the custom NXP kernel,
>>> they use IMX8MM_SYS_PLL2_1000M, so that is done in the device tree to match.
>>>
>>> With the CSI and mipi_csi2 drivers pointing to an OV5640 camera, the media
>>> pipeline can be configured with the following:
>>>
>>>     media-ctl --links "'ov5640 1-003c':0->'imx7-mipi-csis.0':0[1]"
>>>
>>> The camera and various nodes in the pipeline can be configured for UYVY:
>>>     media-ctl -v -V "'ov5640 1-003c':0 [fmt:UYVY8_1X16/640x480 field:none]"
>>>     media-ctl -v -V "'csi':0 [fmt:UYVY8_1X16/640x480 field:none]"
>>>
>>> With that, the media pipeline looks like:
>>>
>>>
>>> Media controller API version 5.15.0
>>>
>>> Media device information
>>> ------------------------
>>> driver          imx7-csi
>>> model           imx-media
>>> serial
>>> bus info        platform:32e20000.csi
>>> hw revision     0x0
>>> driver version  5.15.0
>>>
>>> Device topology
>>> - entity 1: csi (2 pads, 2 links)
>>>             type V4L2 subdev subtype Unknown flags 0
>>>             device node name /dev/v4l-subdev0
>>>         pad0: Sink
>>>                 [fmt:UYVY8_1X16/640x480 field:none colorspace:srgb xfer:srgb ycbcr:601 quantization:lim-range]
>>>                 <- "imx7-mipi-csis.0":1 [ENABLED,IMMUTABLE]
>>>         pad1: Source
>>>                 [fmt:UYVY8_1X16/640x480 field:none colorspace:srgb xfer:srgb ycbcr:601 quantization:lim-range]
>>>                 -> "csi capture":0 [ENABLED,IMMUTABLE]
>>>
>>> - entity 4: csi capture (1 pad, 1 link)
>>>             type Node subtype V4L flags 0
>>>             device node name /dev/video0
>>>         pad0: Sink
>>>                 <- "csi":1 [ENABLED,IMMUTABLE]
>>>
>>> - entity 10: imx7-mipi-csis.0 (2 pads, 2 links)
>>>              type V4L2 subdev subtype Unknown flags 0
>>>              device node name /dev/v4l-subdev1
>>>         pad0: Sink
>>>                 [fmt:UYVY8_1X16/640x480 field:none colorspace:smpte170m xfer:709 ycbcr:601 quantization:lim-range]
>>>                 <- "ov5640 1-003c":0 [ENABLED]
>>>         pad1: Source
>>>                 [fmt:UYVY8_1X16/640x480 field:none colorspace:smpte170m xfer:709 ycbcr:601 quantization:lim-range]
>>>                 -> "csi":0 [ENABLED,IMMUTABLE]
>>>
>>> - entity 15: ov5640 1-003c (1 pad, 1 link)
>>>              type V4L2 subdev subtype Sensor flags 0
>>>              device node name /dev/v4l-subdev2
>>>         pad0: Source
>>>                 [fmt:UYVY8_1X16/640x480@1/30 field:none colorspace:srgb xfer:srgb ycbcr:601 quantization:full-range]
>>>                 -> "imx7-mipi-csis.0":0 [ENABLED]
>>>
>>> When configured, gstreamer can be used to capture 1 frame and store it to a file.
>>>
>>> gst-launch-1.0 -v v4l2src num-buffers=1 ! video/x-raw,format=UYVY,width=640,height=480,framerate=60/1 ! filesink location=test
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the video capture never appears to happen.  No errors occur, not
>>> interrupts are recorded and no errors are recorded.
>>>
>>> gst-launch-1.0 -v v4l2src num-buffers=1 ! video/x-raw,format=UYVY,width=640,height=480,framerate=60/1 ! filesink location=test
>>> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
>>> Pipeline is live and does not need PREROLL ...
>>> Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
>>> Setting pipeline to [  114.819632] v4l2_get_link_freq: Link frequency estimated using pixel rate: result might be inaccurate
>>> PLAYING ...
>>> New clock: GstSystem[  114.829203] v4l2_get_link_freq: Consider implementing support for V4L2_CID_LINK_FREQ in the transmitter driver
>>> Clock
>>> /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src0.GstPad:src: caps = video/x-raw, format=(string)UYVY, width=(int)640, height=(int)480, framerate=(fraction)60/1, interlace-mode=(string)progressive, colorimetry=(string)bt709
>>> /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstCapsFilter:capsfilter0.GstPad:src: caps = video/x-raw, format=(string)UYVY, width=(int)640, height=(int)480, framerate=(fraction)60/1, interlace-mode=(string)progressive, colorimetry=(string)bt709
>>> /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstFileSink:filesink0.GstPad:sink: caps = video/x-raw, format=(string)UYVY, width=(int)640, height=(int)480, framerate=(fraction)60/1, interlace-mode=(string)progressive, colorimetry=(string)bt709
>>> /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstCapsFilter:capsfilter0.GstPad:sink: caps = video/x-raw, format=(string)UYVY, width=(int)640, height=(int)480, framerate=(fraction)60/1, interlace-mode=(string)progressive, colorimetry=(string)bt709
>>>
>>>
>>> If anyone has any insight as to what might be wrong, I'd like feedback.
>>> I posted a device tree that I beleive goes with the newer imx8mm-evk, but
>>> I do not have this hardware, so I cannot test it.
>>
>> It seems that Frieder on Cc managed to get camera capture to work on
>> i.MX8MM here:
>> https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit.kontron-electronics.de%2Fsw%2Fmisc%2Flinux%2F-%2Fcommits%2Fv5.10-mx8mm-csi&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cfrieder.schrempf%40kontron.de%7Cfe4f7347385f4185b1c608d999ab75b5%7C8c9d3c973fd941c8a2b1646f3942daf1%7C0%7C0%7C637709783979195945%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=PbGqhzb2mbUA2SD44%2BosK8rNkK12m1LRd6W4tvkawno%3D&amp;reserved=0
>>
>> Hopefully, this can help to figure out what is missing in mainline to
>> get camera capture to work on i.MX8M.
>>
>> I don't have access to an OV5640 camera to connect to the imx8mm-evk
>> board to try your series.
> 
> Fabio,
> 
> Thanks for the heads up on that repo.  I was able to use that repo and
> get still images to capture on an OV5640, but I noticed a fair amount
> of differences between that repo and what's found in linux-next.
> 
> Laurent,
> 
> I haven't exhausted the patch differences, but I found at least a few
> that appear to be missiing upstream, and I am curious to know if/what
> your opinion is on whether or not they're needed, since the patches on
> Frieder's repo appear to come from you.
> [1] - media: imx: imx7-media-csi: Add i.MX8MM identification
> [2] - media: imx: imx7_mipi_csis: Don't set reserved CLK_CTRL field on i.MX8MM
> [3] - media: imx: imx7_mipi_csis: Set dual pixel mode for RAW formats
> 
> media: imx: imx7_mipi_csis: Set dual pixel mode for RAW formats
> 
> Maybe these don't need to be applied, but they are 'some' of the
> differences that I see between this 5.10 branch and linux-next .  I
> know there are more, but
> 
> 
> [1] - https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit.kontron-electronics.de%2Fsw%2Fmisc%2Flinux%2F-%2Fcommit%2F8ac7ec6db0c260a871038721886dbdb6660ed84c&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cfrieder.schrempf%40kontron.de%7Cfe4f7347385f4185b1c608d999ab75b5%7C8c9d3c973fd941c8a2b1646f3942daf1%7C0%7C0%7C637709783979195945%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=j1iuXWljDd8wA5M44KwLCb%2F21tpdOnKZuJazl25bXbQ%3D&amp;reserved=0
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> 
> Frieder et al,
> 
> Have you (or anyone) tried CSI cameras on anything newer than 5.10?  I
> am curious to see if a regression popped in somewhere, but git bisect
> will make this difficult since there is a fair amount of variation
> between this custom repo and the upstream.

No, I haven't done anything with CSI on a more recent kernel. And I only
used CSI with the tree above and the ADV7280M bridge. I don't have any
hardware with a sensor/camera.

In case you haven't seen this already, here is a thread with some notes
about my testing results:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/cover/20210215042741.28850-1-laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/.



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