Re: [PATCH 00/43] i.MX6 Video capture

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I forgot to mention that I CC-ed David Peverley who was/is also working on a
proper i.MX6 v4l2 driver. I'm sure he'll be interested in this as well.

Regards,

	Hans

On 06/08/2014 10:36 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hi Steve!
> 
> On 06/07/2014 11:56 PM, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This patch set adds video capture support for the Freescale i.MX6 SOC.
>>
>> It is a from-scratch standardized driver that works with community
>> v4l2 utilities, such as v4l2-ctl, v4l2-cap, and the v4l2src gstreamer
>> plugin. It uses the latest v4l2 interfaces (subdev, videobuf2).
>> Please see Documentation/video4linux/mx6_camera.txt for it's full list
>> of features!
>>
>> The first 38 patches:
>>
>> - prepare the ipu-v3 driver for video capture support. The current driver
>>   contains only video display functionality to support the imx DRM drivers.
>>   At some point ipu-v3 should be moved out from under staging/imx-drm since
>>   it will no longer only support DRM.
>>
>> - Adds the device tree nodes and OF graph bindings for video capture support
>>   on sabrelite, sabresd, and sabreauto reference platforms.
>>
>> The new i.MX6 capture host interface driver is at patch 39.
>>
>> To support the sensors found on the sabrelite, sabresd, and sabreauto,
>> three patches add sensor subdev's for parallel OV5642, MIPI CSI-2 OV5640,
>> and the ADV7180 decoder chip, beginning at patch 40.
>>
>> There is an existing adv7180 subdev driver under drivers/media/i2c, but
>> it needs some extra functionality to work on the sabreauto. It will need
>> OF graph bindings support and gpio for a power-on pin on the sabreauto.
>> It would also need to send a new subdev notification to take advantage
>> of decoder status change handling provided by the host driver. This
>> feature makes it possible to correctly handle "hot" (while streaming)
>> signal lock/unlock and autodetected video standard changes.
> 
> A new V4L2_EVENT_SOURCE_CHANGE event has just been added for that.
> 
>> Usage notes are found in Documentation/video4linux/mx6_camera.txt for the
>> above three reference platforms.
>>
>> The driver source is under drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/.
> 
> Thank you for this patch series! Much appreciated that this hardware is
> finally going to supported with a proper driver.
> 
> I did a quick scan of the driver and I noticed a few things that need
> to be fixed: instead of implementing g/s_crop, implement g/s_selection:
> new drivers should implement the selection API and they will get the crop
> API for free.
> 
> You should use the vb2 helper functions (vb2_fop_*, vb2_ioctl_*) unless
> there is a good reason not to do it. Those functions should simplify the
> code and they give you proper 'streaming ownership'. See also the example
> code Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-pci-skeleton.c.
> 
> Finally you should run the v4l2-compliance test tool and fix any failures.
> 
> That tool is part of git://linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git. Always compile from
> that repository to be sure you use the latest code.
> 
> Test first with 'v4l2-compliance'. When all issues are fixed, then test
> with 'v4l2-compliance -s' to test actual streaming behavior as well.
> 
> When you post v2 of this patch series I want to see the output of
> 'v4l2-compliance -s'! New drivers should pass v4l2-compliance. However,
> this is a staging driver so I won't be that strict, but it seems to be
> the intention that this driver will become a mainline driver, so I would
> recommend to fix any issues now rather than later.
> 
> If you have questions about v4l2-compliance it it might be easiest to
> set up an irc session where we go through them. In that case mail me
> so we can set up a time and date to do that. I'm in timezone UTC+2.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans
> 
>>
>>
>> Steve Longerbeam (43):
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Move imx-ipu-v3.h to include/linux/platform_data/
>>   ARM: dts: imx6qdl: Add ipu aliases
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu_get_num()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add solo/dual-lite IPU device type
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Map IOMUXC registers
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add functions to set CSI/IC source muxes
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Rename and add IDMAC channels
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add units required for video capture
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu_mbus_code_to_colorspace()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add rotation mode conversion utilities
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add helper function checking if pixfmt is planar
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Move IDMAC channel names to imx-ipu-v3.h
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu_idmac_buffer_is_ready()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu_idmac_clear_buffer()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu_idmac_current_buffer()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add __ipu_idmac_reset_current_buffer()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu_stride_to_bytes()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu_idmac_enable_watermark()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu_idmac_lock_enable()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add idmac channel linking support
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu_bits_per_pixel()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu-cpmem unit
>>   imx-drm: ipu-cpmem: Add ipu_cpmem_set_block_mode()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-cpmem: Add ipu_cpmem_set_axi_id()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-cpmem: Add ipu_cpmem_set_rotation()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-cpmem: Add second buffer support to ipu_cpmem_set_image()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add more planar formats support
>>   imx-drm: ipu-cpmem: Add ipu_cpmem_dump()
>>   imx-drm: ipu-v3: Add ipu_dump()
>>   ARM: dts: imx6: add pin groups for imx6q/dl for IPU1 CSI0
>>   ARM: dts: imx6qdl: Flesh out MIPI CSI2 receiver node
>>   ARM: dts: imx: sabrelite: add video capture ports and endpoints
>>   ARM: dts: imx6-sabresd: add video capture ports and endpoints
>>   ARM: dts: imx6-sabreauto: add video capture ports and endpoints
>>   ARM: dts: imx6qdl: Add simple-bus to ipu compatibility
>>   gpio: pca953x: Add reset-gpios property
>>   ARM: imx6q: clk: Add video 27m clock
>>   media: imx6: Add device tree binding documentation
>>   media: Add new camera interface driver for i.MX6
>>   media: imx6: Add support for MIPI CSI-2 OV5640
>>   media: imx6: Add support for Parallel OV5642
>>   media: imx6: Add support for ADV7180 Video Decoder
>>   ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Enable video4linux drivers
>>
>>  .../devicetree/bindings/clock/imx6q-clock.txt      |    1 +
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/imx6.txt   |  433 ++
>>  .../bindings/staging/imx-drm/fsl-imx-drm.txt       |    6 +-
>>  .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt        |    1 +
>>  Documentation/video4linux/mx6_camera.txt           |  188 +
>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi                       |    3 +-
>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-sabreauto.dtsi           |  149 +
>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-sabrelite.dtsi           |   91 +
>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-sabresd.dtsi             |  116 +
>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi                     |   62 +-
>>  arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig               |    4 +
>>  arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx6q.c                      |    3 +-
>>  drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c                        |   26 +
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/imx-hdmi.c                 |    2 +-
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/imx-tve.c                  |    2 +-
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/Makefile            |    3 +-
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/imx-ipu-v3.h        |  326 --
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-common.c        | 1151 ++++--
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-cpmem.c         |  814 ++++
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-csi.c           |  821 ++++
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-dc.c            |    2 +-
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-di.c            |    2 +-
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-dmfc.c          |    2 +-
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-dp.c            |    2 +-
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-ic.c            |  835 ++++
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-irt.c           |  103 +
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-prv.h           |  126 +-
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-smfc.c          |  348 ++
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipuv3-crtc.c               |    2 +-
>>  drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipuv3-plane.c              |   18 +-
>>  drivers/staging/media/Kconfig                      |    2 +
>>  drivers/staging/media/Makefile                     |    1 +
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/Kconfig                 |   25 +
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/Makefile                |    1 +
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/Kconfig         |   33 +
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/Makefile        |    7 +
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/adv7180.c       | 1298 ++++++
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mipi-csi2.c     |  322 ++
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mx6-camif.c     | 2235 ++++++++++
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mx6-camif.h     |  197 +
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mx6-encode.c    |  775 ++++
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mx6-preview.c   |  748 ++++
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/ov5640-mipi.c   | 2158 ++++++++++
>>  drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/ov5642.c        | 4258 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/linux/platform_data/imx-ipu-v3.h           |  425 ++
>>  include/media/imx6.h                               |   18 +
>>  46 files changed, 17340 insertions(+), 805 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/imx6.txt
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/video4linux/mx6_camera.txt
>>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/imx-ipu-v3.h
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-cpmem.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-csi.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-ic.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-irt.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/imx-drm/ipu-v3/ipu-smfc.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/Kconfig
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/Makefile
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/Kconfig
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/Makefile
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/adv7180.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mipi-csi2.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mx6-camif.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mx6-camif.h
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mx6-encode.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mx6-preview.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/ov5640-mipi.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/ov5642.c
>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/platform_data/imx-ipu-v3.h
>>  create mode 100644 include/media/imx6.h
>>
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