On 3/9/22 21:08, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
Le mercredi 09 mars 2022 à 00:16 +0100, Xavier Roumegue (OSS) a écrit :
On 3/8/22 21:28, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
Le mardi 08 mars 2022 à 20:42 +0100, Xavier Roumegue (OSS) a écrit :
Hello Nicolas,
On 3/8/22 20:15, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
Le mardi 08 mars 2022 à 19:48 +0100, Xavier Roumegue a écrit :
The DW100 driver gets the dewarping mapping as a binary blob from the
userspace application through a custom control.
The blob format is hardware specific so create a dedicated control for
this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Xavier Roumegue <xavier.roumegue@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/dw100.rst | 7 +++++++
include/uapi/linux/dw100.h | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/dw100.h
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/dw100.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/dw100.rst
index 20aeae63a94f..3abad05849ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/dw100.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/dw100.rst
@@ -20,4 +20,11 @@ match the expected size inherited from the destination image resolution.
More details on the DW100 hardware operations can be found in
*chapter 13.15 DeWarp* of IMX8MP_ reference manuel.
+The Vivante DW100 m2m driver implements the following driver-specific control:
+
+``V4L2_CID_DW100_MAPPING (integer)``
+ Specifies to DW100 driver its dewarping map (aka LUT) blob as described in
+ *chapter 13.15.2.3 Dewarping Remap* of IMX8MP_ reference manual as an U32
+ dynamic array.
+
.. _IMX8MP: https://www.nxp.com/webapp/Download?colCode=IMX8MPIEC
This point to a document names "i.MX 8M Plus Applications Processor Datasheet
for Industrial Products" which does not contain that reference.
My bad.. Wrong link. :)
Will repost with correct link.
Thanks. What I wanted to check is if it actually made sense to expose the
synthetized HW LUT. But for this, one need to share the parameters / algo needed
to generate them.
There is no special dewarping algorithm which strictly depends on the
dw100 IP, or optimized for the IP capabilities.
This way we can compare against other popular dewarp
algorithms / API and see if they have something in common.
The dw100 hw lut description is rather close to a how you implement
dewarping with openGL taking benefit of the shader pipeline stage.
The main differences with OpenGL implementation are:
- Fixed vertices coordinates (16x16) vs any
- Limited resolution on input (texture) coordinates (UQ12.4) vs float
Standard routines from OpenCV such as initUndistortRectifyMap()
https://docs.opencv.org/4.5.5/d9/d0c/group__calib3d.html#ga7dfb72c9cf9780a347fbe3d1c47e5d5a
can be used to generate the binary blob, with an additional decimation
processing stage to satisfy the 16x16 macro block vertices grid and the
fixed point format.
The issue I see with this control is relate to the message it gives. When adding
controls for the prosperity, we want these control to actually be usable. This
is possible if the documentation makes its usage obvious, or if there is Open
Source userland to support that.
So yes, most famous vision opensource project such OpenCV can be used to
generate the blob.
None of this is met, so as a side effect, this looks like NXP sneaking in
private blob control into a publicly maintained Open Source project.
I then disagree with this statement considering my previous comments.
I plan to release publicly some programming examples on how to generate
the dewarping map only using openCV library routines and aligned with
lenses calibration state of the art method.
A dedicated openCV module taking benefit of the DW100 will be published
as well.
A long term target is to add its support in libcamera, combined with all
media components (CSI, ISP, ISI) pulled from upstream kernel tree.
This isn't
truly aligned with how V4L2 controls are meant to be. Doing trivial lut
synthesis in the kernel could be fine though.
I am not sure what you meant with this comment.
As part of this patch series, an identity map is generated in the driver
which should be enough for anyone familiar with dewarping process.
If you meant to generate the remapping table from the lens calibration
data, I don't think this is a reasonable option considering the
NP-completeness of the problem.
If this is the idea of binary blob (despite its public format
description) which hurts you, the map can be exposed to the kernel in a
more human readable format such Image_in(xin, yin) -> Image_out(xout,
yout) in UQ1.31 format but will add extra processing at runtime for
something which has to be done anyway offline, and memory overhead. But
I don't think we can end with a generic v4l2 control considering the
hardware restrictions (vertices position, limited fixed point
resolution, etc..).
Please avoid implication that I would be *hurt* by your patchset. Your
imagination will make you read my comment as saying something it is not. My
comment are strictly scoped within the information you have provided with the
patchset to justify adding a vendor control in contrast to providing controls
that would be reused by another driver later. I'm not into lense or anything, I
strictly review the userland APIs that you submitted with care on documentation
and usability.
Try and ignore everything you know and the inner of this hardware design, and
perhaps about dewarping technique and you may endup with a different read of
your patchset. My impression while reading it is that I would not be able to use
it due to lack of example. And if NXP website would stop hosting the
documentation, this would make it just impossible. Time have showed that vendor
controls are rarely the solution and should only be added with great care and
good documentation. For a first driver supporting a technology like this one, it
could be acceptable, assuming it is documented in a future proof way.
I fully understand uapi changes have to be handle with care, and that
was the reason I was initially willing to use a private custom control
(as few drivers are doing), without being aware of the current policy
with this regards.
I was willing to share the details of the hardware specification through
NXP website such as one could get all public details available on the
IP, and I was (wrongly) thinking the code was talking by itself to give
indication on its format (finally pretty simple). Again, I understand
one could be mistrustful with documentation hosted out of kernel tree
for the reasons you mentioned, even though the risk is pretty small as
NXP (as most of the vendors) has some long term maintenance legal
contracts to fulfill.
All the information and the rationale you are adding in this reply can be added
in the next submission. What I think you should strictly address:
- The LUT format and meaning should be documented directly in the Linux Kernel
documentation. Having to register an account with NXP in order to download the
documentation is not acceptable and not future safe.
Will do, and will provide a short script example to generate the LUT.
- You forgot to provide the output of v4l2-compliance, I didn't mention yet, but
that would have come of course.
The v4l2-compliance report is actually in the cover letter of the patchset.
The rest are just nice to have, though generally wanted.
- The name of the control could be made more descriptive. The lut is mapping
what in one word ? And that word could be added to the name.
I am running out of imagination for figuring out the good word to use.
The LUT is mapping "input pixels coordinates" to "output pixels
coordinates".
Using OpenGL semantic, this maps textures coordinates to vertices
coordinates. Any naming suggestions are welcome.
- The patchset could mention userland code that uses it, which show that this is
actually tested*
Will do.
Custom control was tested with a gst pipelone using a (hacky)
gstv4l2transform element and a opencv script using custom module which
will be shared publicly.
- There is other feature you mention, unrelated to the dewarp feature. You
haven't said with what userland these have been tested. M2M scaling, csc and
crop are generic should just work with existing userland. You could use
GStreamer as an example.
v4l2-ctl and gst pipeline using (vanilla) gstv4l2transform have been
used for testing.
Unfortunately, I had to apply oneliner patches on v4l2-ctl to get the
cropping working to prevent the use of read_write_padded_frame() for
FWHT cases which is applying a sw cropping/compose if I got it right,
which seems incorrect for generic m2m.
https://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/tree/utils/v4l2-ctl/v4l2-ctl-streaming.cpp#n1112
https://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/tree/utils/v4l2-ctl/v4l2-ctl-streaming.cpp#n1372
I will open a thread on v4l2-utils to discuss this.
* You'll find this funny, or perhaps even insulting at first, but you'd be
surprise how much code (specially from ARM SoC vendors) that get sent every year
that don't even compile or have never been tested after being up-ported from an
older tree. And that is only scratching the surface of the problem we have to
deal with. Notably drivers were only 1 pixel format out of let's say 10 have
been tested that comes with broken stride and memory buffer size calculation
causing much larger troubles in the system.
This certainly does not ensure the driver to be bug-free, but I swear I
tested all in/out pixel format combinations and driver compilation is
W=12 warnings free :)
Adding a generic dewarping API to V4L2 is possible but this was not the
scope of this patchset, and anyway missing data on any existing public
dewarp hardware implementation supported by the kernel is somehow a
blocker for this.
I was asking to share about your research that made you opt-out any kind of non-
vendor control for this feature. From your original submission, it would have
been ill advised for me to assume anything. Note that programming interface for
a V4L2 driver does not need to be based on other hardware vendor interface. I'm
not in this industry, but there could have been an industry standard for
expressing lense correction, produce through a a calibration process. The one
thing I've been assuming is that you are in the industry and would be able to
share a bit on that.
I am looking on dewarp stuff for 3 months but I can share for sure my
undersanding whatever it worths.
The optical system can be mathematically described using a set of
matrices and lenses distorsion parameters which are estimated during
your calibration stage.
https://docs.opencv.org/4.5.5/dc/dbb/tutorial_py_calibration.html
Then it's a matter of resolving a non linear system (ouch) to get the
remapping lut correcting the distorsion. OpenCV computes a 1:1 pixel
(re)mapping.
This is obviously impossible to perform those software computation in
the kernel.
One could imagine that some hw dewarpers might have implemented mapping
lut computation in hardware, and if so, the control api could have been
inherited from those calibration parameters. I have no idea if such
hardware exists.
Another alternative is to consider the remapping LUT as an input which
seems more reasonable applying divide and conquer concepts.
I would rather go for such option if a generic v4l2 interface should be
designed and combined with a library. And this would likely help to get
synergies with openGL implementation from the application standpoint.
The driver would have to expose its mapping capabilities (mainly
vertices coordinates constraints (x:y mapping) and float resolution).
But this might worth waiting a bit to check the availability trend on
such capable hardware.
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/dw100.h b/include/uapi/linux/dw100.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0ef926c61cf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/dw100.h
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+/* Copyright 2022 NXP */
+
+#ifndef __UAPI_DW100_H__
+#define __UAPI_DW100_H__
+
+#include <linux/v4l2-controls.h>
+
+#define V4L2_CID_DW100_MAPPING (V4L2_CID_USER_DW100_BASE + 1)
+
+#endif
