Re: [PATCH 12/13] atmel-isi: use union for the fbd (frame buffer descriptor)

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Hi, Guennadi

Thanks for the review.

2016-01-25 3:31 GMT+08:00 Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx>:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Josh Wu wrote:
>
>> From: Josh Wu <josh.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This way, we can easy to add other type of fbd for new hardware.
>
> Ok, I've applied all your 13 patches to check, what the resulting driver
> would look like. To me it looks like you really abstract away _everything_
> remotely hardware-specific. What is left is yet another abstraction layer,
> into which you can pack a wide range of hardware types, which are very
> different from the original ISI. I mean, you could probably pack - to some
> extent, maybe sacrificing some features - other existing soc-camera
> drivers, like MX3, MX2, CEU,... - essentially those, using VB2. And I
> don't think that's a good idea. We have a class of V4L2 camera bridge
> drivers, that's fine. They use all the standard APIs to connect to the
> user-space and to other V4L2 drivers in video pipelines - V4L2 ioctl()s,
> subdev, Media Controller, VB2, V4L2 control API etc. Under that we have
> soc-camera - mainly for a few existing bridge drivers, because it takes a
> part of bridge driver's implementation freedom away and many or most
> modern camera bridge interfaces are more complex, than what soc-camera
> currently supports, and extending it makes little sense, it is just more
> logical to create a full-features V4L2 bridge driver with a full access to
> all relevant APIs.

It sounds the general v4l2 driver framework is more suitable than
soc-camera framework for the new hardware.
So is it easy for v4l2 platform driver to use the soc-camera sensors?

> With your patches #12 and #13 you seem to be creating
> an even tighter, narrower API for very thin drivers. That just provide a
> couple of hardware-related functions and create a V4L2 bridge driver from
> that. What kind of hardware is that new controller, that you'd like to
> support by the same driver? Wouldn't it be better to create a new driver
> for it? Is it really similar to the ISI controller?

The new hardware is SAMA5D2 Image Sensor Controller. You can find the
datasheet here:
http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-11267-32-bit-Cortex-A5-Microcontroller-SAMA5D2_Datasheet.pdf

Actually, The ISC hardware is very different from ISI hardware. ISC
has no Preivew/Codec path, it just has many data blocks to process
sensor data.
With the abstraction of my patches, ISC can rewrite the interrupt
handler, initialization, configure and etc to work in same ISI driver,
though. But like you mentioned, it's very tight, maybe it's not easy
to add extend functions.

So I was convinced to write a new v4l2 camera driver for ISC if it is
easy to support soc-camera sensors.

>
> Thanks
> Guennadi

Best Regards,
Josh Wu

>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <rainyfeeling@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>>  drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/atmel-isi.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++---------
>>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/atmel-isi.c b/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/atmel-isi.c
>> index 7d2e952..b4c1f38 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/atmel-isi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/atmel-isi.c
>> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
>>  #define FRAME_INTERVAL_MILLI_SEC     (1000 / MIN_FRAME_RATE)
>>
>>  /* Frame buffer descriptor */
>> -struct fbd {
>> +struct fbd_isi_v2 {
>>       /* Physical address of the frame buffer */
>>       u32 fb_address;
>>       /* DMA Control Register(only in HISI2) */
>> @@ -46,9 +46,13 @@ struct fbd {
>>       u32 next_fbd_address;
>>  };
>>
>> +union fbd {
>> +     struct fbd_isi_v2 fbd_isi;
>> +};
>> +
>>  struct isi_dma_desc {
>>       struct list_head list;
>> -     struct fbd *p_fbd;
>> +     union fbd *p_fbd;
>>       dma_addr_t fbd_phys;
>>  };
>>
>> @@ -69,7 +73,7 @@ struct atmel_isi {
>>       struct vb2_alloc_ctx            *alloc_ctx;
>>
>>       /* Allocate descriptors for dma buffer use */
>> -     struct fbd                      *p_fb_descriptors;
>> +     union fbd                       *p_fb_descriptors;
>>       dma_addr_t                      fb_descriptors_phys;
>>       struct                          list_head dma_desc_head;
>>       struct isi_dma_desc             dma_desc[MAX_BUFFER_NUM];
>> @@ -396,6 +400,16 @@ static int buffer_init(struct vb2_buffer *vb)
>>       return 0;
>>  }
>>
>> +static void isi_hw_init_dma_desc(union fbd *p_fdb, u32 fb_addr,
>> +                              u32 next_fbd_addr)
>> +{
>> +     struct fbd_isi_v2 *p = &(p_fdb->fbd_isi);
>
> Superfluous parentheses
>
>> +
>> +     p->fb_address = fb_addr;
>> +     p->next_fbd_address = next_fbd_addr;
>> +     p->dma_ctrl = ISI_DMA_CTRL_WB;
>> +}
>> +
>>  static int buffer_prepare(struct vb2_buffer *vb)
>>  {
>>       struct vb2_v4l2_buffer *vbuf = to_vb2_v4l2_buffer(vb);
>> @@ -428,10 +442,7 @@ static int buffer_prepare(struct vb2_buffer *vb)
>>                       list_del_init(&desc->list);
>>
>>                       /* Initialize the dma descriptor */
>> -                     desc->p_fbd->fb_address =
>> -                                     vb2_dma_contig_plane_dma_addr(vb, 0);
>> -                     desc->p_fbd->next_fbd_address = 0;
>> -                     desc->p_fbd->dma_ctrl = ISI_DMA_CTRL_WB;
>> +                     isi_hw_init_dma_desc(desc->p_fbd, vb2_dma_contig_plane_dma_addr(vb, 0), 0);
>>
>>                       buf->p_dma_desc = desc;
>>               }
>> @@ -923,7 +934,7 @@ static int atmel_isi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>       soc_camera_host_unregister(soc_host);
>>       vb2_dma_contig_cleanup_ctx(isi->alloc_ctx);
>>       dma_free_coherent(&pdev->dev,
>> -                     sizeof(struct fbd) * MAX_BUFFER_NUM,
>> +                     sizeof(union fbd) * MAX_BUFFER_NUM,
>>                       isi->p_fb_descriptors,
>>                       isi->fb_descriptors_phys);
>>       pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
>> @@ -1010,7 +1021,7 @@ static int atmel_isi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&isi->dma_desc_head);
>>
>>       isi->p_fb_descriptors = dma_alloc_coherent(&pdev->dev,
>> -                             sizeof(struct fbd) * MAX_BUFFER_NUM,
>> +                             sizeof(union fbd) * MAX_BUFFER_NUM,
>>                               &isi->fb_descriptors_phys,
>>                               GFP_KERNEL);
>>       if (!isi->p_fb_descriptors) {
>> @@ -1021,7 +1032,7 @@ static int atmel_isi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>       for (i = 0; i < MAX_BUFFER_NUM; i++) {
>>               isi->dma_desc[i].p_fbd = isi->p_fb_descriptors + i;
>>               isi->dma_desc[i].fbd_phys = isi->fb_descriptors_phys +
>> -                                     i * sizeof(struct fbd);
>> +                                     i * sizeof(union fbd);
>>               list_add(&isi->dma_desc[i].list, &isi->dma_desc_head);
>>       }
>>
>> @@ -1080,7 +1091,7 @@ err_ioremap:
>>       vb2_dma_contig_cleanup_ctx(isi->alloc_ctx);
>>  err_alloc_ctx:
>>       dma_free_coherent(&pdev->dev,
>> -                     sizeof(struct fbd) * MAX_BUFFER_NUM,
>> +                     sizeof(union fbd) * MAX_BUFFER_NUM,
>>                       isi->p_fb_descriptors,
>>                       isi->fb_descriptors_phys);
>>
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>
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