Hi Gary, On Tuesday 30 August 2011 16:18:00 Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2011-08-30 08:08, Gary Thomas wrote: > > On 2011-08-29 04:49, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >> On Thursday 25 August 2011 18:07:38 Gary Thomas wrote: > >>> Background: I have working video capture drivers based on the > >>> TI PSP codebase from 2.6.32. In particular, I managed to get > >>> a driver for the TVP5150 (analogue BT656) working with that kernel. > >>> > >>> Now I need to update to Linux 3.0, so I'm trying to get a driver > >>> working with the rewritten ISP code. Sadly, I'm having a hard > >>> time with this - probably just missing something basic. > >>> > >>> I've tried to clone the TVP514x driver which says that it works > >>> with the OMAP3 ISP code. I've updated it to use my decoder device, > >>> but I can't even seem to get into that code from user land. > >>> > >>> Here are the problems I've had so far: > >>> * udev doesn't create any video devices although they have been > >>> registered. I see a full set in /sys/class/video4linux > >>> # ls /sys/class/video4linux/ > >>> v4l-subdev0 v4l-subdev3 v4l-subdev6 video1 video4 > >>> v4l-subdev1 v4l-subdev4 v4l-subdev7 video2 video5 > >>> v4l-subdev2 v4l-subdev5 video0 video3 video6 > >> > >> It looks like a udev issue. I don't think that's related to the kernel > >> drivers. > >> > >>> Indeed, if I create /dev/videoX by hand, I can get somewhere, but > >>> I don't really understand how this is supposed to work. e.g. > >>> # v4l2-dbg --info /dev/video3 > >>> Driver info: > >>> Driver name : ispvideo > >>> Card type : OMAP3 ISP CCP2 input > >>> Bus info : media > >>> Driver version: 1 > >>> Capabilities : 0x04000002 > >>> Video Output > >>> Streaming > >>> > >>> * If I try to grab video, the ISP layer gets a ton of warnings, but > >>> I never see it call down into my driver, e.g. to check the current > >>> format, etc. I have some of my own code from before which fails > >>> miserably (not a big surprise given the hack level of those programs). > >>> I tried something off-the-shelf which also fails pretty bad: > >>> # ffmpeg -t 10 -f video4linux2 -s 720x480 -r 30 -i /dev/video2 > >>> junk.mp4 > >>> > >>> I've read through Documentation/video4linux/omap3isp.txt without > >>> learning much about what might be wrong. > >>> > >>> Can someone give me some ideas/guidance, please? > >> > >> In a nutshell, you will first have to configure the OMAP3 ISP pipeline, > >> and then capture video. > >> > >> Configuring the pipeline is done through the media controller API and > >> the V4L2 subdev pad-level API. To experiment with those you can use the > >> media-ctl command line application available at > >> http://git.ideasonboard.org/?p=media- ctl.git;a=summary. You can run it > >> with --print-dot and pipe the result to dot -Tps to get a postscript > >> graphical view of your device. > >> > >> Here's a sample pipeline configuration to capture scaled-down YUV data > >> from a sensor: > >> > >> ./media-ctl -r -l '"mt9t001 3-005d":0->"OMAP3 ISP CCDC":0[1], "OMAP3 ISP > >> CCDC":2->"OMAP3 ISP preview":0[1], "OMAP3 ISP preview":1->"OMAP3 ISP > >> resizer":0[1], "OMAP3 ISP resizer":1->"OMAP3 ISP resizer output":0[1]' > >> ./media-ctl -f '"mt9t001 3-005d":0[SGRBG10 1024x768], "OMAP3 ISP > >> CCDC":2[SGRBG10 1024x767], "OMAP3 ISP preview":1[YUYV 1006x759], "OMAP3 > >> ISP resizer":1[YUYV 800x600]' > >> > >> After configuring your pipeline you will be able to capture video using > >> the V4L2 API on the device node at the output of the pipeline. > > > > Thanks for the info. > > > > When I run 'media-ctl -p', I see the various nodes, etc, and they all > > look good except that I get lots of messages like this: > > - entity 5: OMAP3 ISP CCDC (3 pads, 9 links) > > type V4L2 subdev subtype Unknown > > pad0: Input v4l2_subdev_open: Failed to open subdev device node > > Could this be related to my missing [udev] device nodes? It could be. You need the /dev/video* and /dev/v4l-subdev* device nodes. > I can see media-ctl get confused and try to open a nonsense device name. > Here's what I see when I run > # strace media-ctl -p | grep open > open("/dev/media0", O_RDWR) = 3 > open("", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) write(1, "\tpad0: Input v4l2_subdev_open: F"..., 66) = 66 > > > When I try to setup my pipeline using something similar to what you > > provided, the first step runs and I can see that it does something (some > > lines on the graph went from dotted to solid), but I still get errors: > > # media-ctl -r -l '"tvp5150m1 2-005c":0->"OMAP3 ISP CCDC":0[1], "OMAP3 > > ISP CCDC":1->"OMAP3 ISP CCDC output":0[1]' Resetting all links to > > inactive > > Setting up link 16:0 -> 5:0 [1] > > Setting up link 5:1 -> 6:0 [1] > > # media-ctl -f '"tvp5150m1 2-005c":0[SGRBG12 320x240], "OMAP3 ISP > > CCDC":0[SGRBG8 320x240], "OMAP3 ISP CCDC":1[SGRBG8 320x240]' Setting up > > format SGRBG12 320x240 on pad tvp5150m1 2-005c/0 > > v4l2_subdev_open: Failed to open subdev device node > > Unable to set format: No such file or directory (-2) > > > > As far as I can tell, none if this is making any callbacks into my > > driver. > > > > Any ideas what I might be missing? > > > > Thanks -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html