[PATCH] media: ov5640: select the MIPI lane mode from the endpoint lane count

From: Jason Yang via B4 Relay

Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 00:41:13 EST


From: Jason Yang <jason98166@xxxxxxxxx>

ov5640_set_stream_mipi() always programs IO_MIPI_CTRL00 with 0x45,
which selects the two data lane mode: the number of data lanes
described in the devicetree endpoint only feeds the sensor's clock
tree computations, so a module wired with one data lane starts
streaming in two lane mode and the receiver never assembles a
frame.

Select the lane mode from the endpoint instead. The one lane
encoding is [7:5] = 001 per the current sensor manual (version
2.33). The 2.03 manual documented 000/001 for one/two lanes;
OmniVision corrected the table in version 2.1, which is why the
long-standing comment here found 001 unusable for two lanes and
validated 010 instead.

The power-up path also programs a two data lane mode, but that
value is overwritten when streaming starts, so it is left alone.

Tested with a single data lane module on an i.MX8MP board
(imx-mipi-csis receiver), where the unpatched value produces no
frames at all, and on an RK3588 board.

Fixes: 19a81c1426c1 ("[media] add Omnivision OV5640 sensor driver")
Cc: stable+noautosel@xxxxxxxxxx # no in-tree 1-lane users
Signed-off-by: Jason Yang <jason98166@xxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
---
The three [7:5] encodings were exercised individually on the
i.MX8MP board (v7.2-rc4, data-lanes = <1>) by patching the value
and capturing with v4l2-ctl:

001 (this patch): 30/30 frames, zero PHY error events in
steady state (3 x 300 frames)
000 (2.03 manual / NXP KB): same result
010 (unpatched two lane mode): no frames; the receiver logs
only start-of-transmission errors and never assembles one

The RK3588 run used the same module and devicetree (data-lanes =
<1>) through a Rockchip CSI-2 receiver, streaming to natural EOS
with a clean kernel log.

Happy to run additional tests on either platform if that would
help.
---
drivers/media/i2c/ov5640.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov5640.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov5640.c
index 8deb5f5501fa..ef731709bdc8 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov5640.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov5640.c
@@ -1826,27 +1826,27 @@ static int ov5640_set_stream_dvp(struct ov5640_dev *sensor, bool on)

static int ov5640_set_stream_mipi(struct ov5640_dev *sensor, bool on)
{
+ u8 val;
int ret;

/*
* Enable/disable the MIPI interface
*
- * 0x300e = on ? 0x45 : 0x40
- *
- * FIXME: the sensor manual (version 2.03) reports
- * [7:5] = 000 : 1 data lane mode
- * [7:5] = 001 : 2 data lanes mode
- * But this settings do not work, while the following ones
- * have been validated for 2 data lanes mode.
- *
+ * [7:5] = 001 : 1 data lane mode
* [7:5] = 010 : 2 data lanes mode
+ * Encodings per version 2.33 of the sensor manual.
* [4] = 0 : Power up MIPI HS Tx
* [3] = 0 : Power up MIPI LS Rx
* [2] = 1/0 : MIPI interface enable/disable
* [1:0] = 01/00: FIXME: 'debug'
*/
- ret = ov5640_write_reg(sensor, OV5640_REG_IO_MIPI_CTRL00,
- on ? 0x45 : 0x40);
+ if (on)
+ val = sensor->ep.bus.mipi_csi2.num_data_lanes == 1 ?
+ 0x25 : 0x45;
+ else
+ val = 0x40;
+
+ ret = ov5640_write_reg(sensor, OV5640_REG_IO_MIPI_CTRL00, val);
if (ret)
return ret;

@@ -2535,7 +2535,7 @@ static int ov5640_set_power_mipi(struct ov5640_dev *sensor, bool on)
* Power up MIPI HS Tx and LS Rx; 2 data lanes mode
*
* 0x300e = 0x40
- * [7:5] = 010 : 2 data lanes mode (see FIXME note in
+ * [7:5] = 010 : 2 data lanes mode (see the note in
* "ov5640_set_stream_mipi()")
* [4] = 0 : Power up MIPI HS Tx
* [3] = 0 : Power up MIPI LS Rx

---
base-commit: 1590cf0329716306e948a8fc29f1d3ee87d3989f
change-id: 20260811-ov5640-1lane-v1-b0fe37eab4d8

Best regards,
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Jason Yang <jason98166@xxxxxxxxx>