Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver

[Steve Longerbeam]

On 01/30/2017 04:45 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Trying this driver with an imx219 camera (which works with Philipp's
> driver) results in not much happening... no /dev/media* node for it,
> no subdevs, no nothing.  No clues as to what's missing either.  Only
> messages from imx-media are from registering the various subdevs.
>
> [   37.444877] imx-media: Registered subdev imx6-mipi-csi2
> [   37.444973] imx-media: Registered subdev imx219 0-0010
> [   38.868740] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_ic_prpenc
> [   38.869265] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_ic_prpvf
> [   38.869425] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_ic_pp0
> [   38.870086] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_ic_pp1
> [   38.871510] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_ic_prpenc
> [   38.871743] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_smfc0
> [   38.873043] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_smfc1
> [   38.873225] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_ic_prpvf
> [   38.875027] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_smfc0
> [   38.875320] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_ic_pp0
> [   38.877148] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_smfc1
> [   38.877436] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_ic_pp1
> [   38.932089] imx-media: Registered subdev camif0
> [   38.956538] imx-media: Registered subdev camif1
> [   38.959148] imx-media: Registered subdev camif2
> [   38.964353] imx-media: Registered subdev camif3
> [  206.502077] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_csi0
> [  206.503304] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_csi1
> [  206.503814] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_csi0
> [  206.504281] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_csi1
>
> I also get:
>
> [   37.200072] imx6-mipi-csi2: data lanes: 2
> [   37.200077] imx6-mipi-csi2: flags: 0x00000200
>
> and from what I can see, all modules from drivers/staging/media/imx/ are
> loaded (had to load imx-csi by hand because of the brokenness in the
> drivers/gpu/ipu code attaching an device_node pointer after registering
> the platform device, which changes what userspace sees in the modalias
> file.)
>
> Any clues at what to look at?

Hi Russell,

I'm not familiar with IMX219, can you send me the source for the
imx219 subdev? I don't see it in 4.10-rc1.

I'm also having trouble finding a datasheet for it, but from what
I've read, it has a MIPI CSI-2 interface. It should work fine as long
as it presents a single source pad, registers asynchronously, and
sets its entity function to MEDIA_ENT_F_CAM_SENSOR.

Since I see it was registered asynchronously from the above, it
must have been added to the device tree. But given that there
is no /dev/media? node, the media driver is probably waiting for
another subdev to register, I don't know what that would be.

Can you send me the full patch on top of the v3 driver and I'll
try to find what's missing.

Edit: I see a subdev that is missing: the video mux. Did you enable
CONFIG_VIDEO_MULTIPLEXER?

Finally, what platform does this IMX219 sensor module plug into?


Steve