Re: [PATCH 1/5] media: ov2680: Stop sending more data then requested

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Hi Kieran,

On 4/15/24 12:03 AM, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Quoting Hans de Goede (2024-04-11 13:19:15)
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 4/10/24 11:24 PM, Kieran Bingham wrote:
>>> Quoting Hans de Goede (2024-04-10 12:27:03)
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for being very slow with replying to this.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No worries,
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 2/17/24 4:38 PM, Kieran Bingham wrote:
>>>>> Quoting Hans de Goede (2024-02-16 22:32:33)
>>>>>> There is no reason to send OV2680_END_MARGIN extra columns on top of
>>>>>> the mode width and the same for sending extra lines over the mode height.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This sending of extra lines/columns was inherited from the atomisp
>>>>>> ov2680 driver, it is unclear why this was done and this complicates
>>>>>> adding V4L2_CID_VBLANK support, so remove it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Was this some niave way of adding some HBLANK to let the AtomISP keep up
>>>>> with processing each line?
>>>>
>>>> The total amount of pixels per line and of lines per frame are fixed:
>>>>
>>>> #define OV2680_PIXELS_PER_LINE                 1704
>>>> #define OV2680_LINES_PER_FRAME                 1294
>>>>
>>>> This patch only changes the h_end and v_end registers which
>>>> before AFAIK configure when to stop sending actual pixel
>>>> data (and move over to sending blanking data). So this was
>>>> actually requesting for more pixels to be send then there are.
>>>>
>>>>> Or is it an optical black region? or padding? (I hit issues around that
>>>>> on the IMX283 lately).
>>>>
>>>> AFAICT (from the datasheet) there is no optical black region, so
>>>> this really just seemed some weirdness in the original Android
>>>> kernel driver where this is derived from.
>>>>
>>>> The datasheet says:
>>>>
>>>> "2.4 pixel array addresses
>>>> The addressable pixel array of the OV2680 sensor is 1616 x 1216. The addressed region of the pixel array is controlled
>>>> by the horizontal_start, vertical_start, horizontal_end and vertical_end registers. The start and end addresses are limited
>>>> to even and odd numbers, respectively, to ensure that there is always an even number of pixels read out in x and y."
>>>>
>>>>> Is this a sensor you have and can visually check?
>>>>
>>>> Yes this is a sensor which I have, not sure what you mean with
>>>> visually check. The atomisp driver does not allow getting the full
>>>
>>> Me neither at this point. I was probably worried about the impact of
>>> changing these values causing visible issues in the stride/line widths
>>> or such. But if you're testing and capturing images successfully I'm not
>>> worried now.
>>>
>>>
>>>> resolution as the ISP needs some padding. So the max I can get
>>>> is 1600x1200. I think the original Android code just added
>>>> the 16 extra pixels needed by the ISP to h_end and v_end
>>>> twice. Starting with the extra 16 pixels which are actually
>>>> there on the sensor and then adding an extra 16 which are
>>>> fully made up by the driver author and somehow this still
>>>> works (I guess the sensor just sends all 0 data for these).
>>>
>>> Or maybe that was the part to check visually ;-) But I guess it's not
>>> easy to capture the full raw images for these ?
>>
>> Besides a bunch of devices with the atomisp I also have 1 IPU3
>> based device with an ov2680 sensor. So I could capture full
>> raw resolution there. But unless I modify the driver full
>> raw resolution is 1616x1216 where as before this patch the driver
>> sets v_end to 1631 so more pixels then the full size, which is
>> the weirdness this patch corrects.
> 
> That sounds reasonable to me, thank you for all the explanations.
> 
> I don't object to this patch, but I don't have a way to test, nor
> further verify this one myself specifically.
> 
> But, the commit does reflect what the commit message states ... so I
> guess that's a ...
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you.

Since this patch set is quite old by now I'll go and prepare a
resend with all the collected tags soon.

Regards,

Hans



>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>  drivers/media/i2c/ov2680.c | 9 ++-------
>>>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov2680.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov2680.c
>>>>>> index 39d321e2b7f9..5b04c6c0554a 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov2680.c
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov2680.c
>>>>>> @@ -86,9 +86,6 @@
>>>>>>  #define OV2680_PIXELS_PER_LINE                 1704
>>>>>>  #define OV2680_LINES_PER_FRAME                 1294
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> -/* If possible send 16 extra rows / lines to the ISP as padding */
>>>>>> -#define OV2680_END_MARGIN                      16
>>>>>> -
>>>>>>  /* Max exposure time is VTS - 8 */
>>>>>>  #define OV2680_INTEGRATION_TIME_MARGIN         8
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> @@ -359,11 +356,9 @@ static void ov2680_calc_mode(struct ov2680_dev *sensor)
>>>>>>         sensor->mode.v_start = (sensor->mode.crop.top +
>>>>>>                                 (sensor->mode.crop.height - height) / 2) & ~1;
>>>>>>         sensor->mode.h_end =
>>>>>> -               min(sensor->mode.h_start + width + OV2680_END_MARGIN - 1,
>>>>>> -                   OV2680_NATIVE_WIDTH - 1);
>>>>>> +               min(sensor->mode.h_start + width - 1, OV2680_NATIVE_WIDTH - 1);
>>>>>>         sensor->mode.v_end =
>>>>>> -               min(sensor->mode.v_start + height + OV2680_END_MARGIN - 1,
>>>>>> -                   OV2680_NATIVE_HEIGHT - 1);
>>>>>> +               min(sensor->mode.v_start + height - 1, OV2680_NATIVE_HEIGHT - 1);
>>>>>>         sensor->mode.h_output_size = orig_width;
>>>>>>         sensor->mode.v_output_size = orig_height;
>>>>>>         sensor->mode.hts = OV2680_PIXELS_PER_LINE;
>>>>>
>>>>> Especially as seeing hts = OV2680_PIXELS_PER_LINE it does sound like the
>>>>> margin is superfluous.
>>>>
>>>> Right.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Hans
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 





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