[PATCH 3/3] media: ov02c10: Accept a 26 MHz external clock

From: Felipe Calliari

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 23:12:21 EST


Several Meteor Lake / Lunar Lake designs (e.g. the Samsung Galaxy Book3/4
series) wire the OV02C10 to a 26 MHz external clock instead of the
19.2 MHz assumed so far. The IPU6 ipu-bridge forwards the rate from the
ACPI SSDB verbatim as the "clock-frequency" property, so probe() just
rejects it today:

ov02c10 i2c-OVTI02C1:00: external clock 26000000 is not supported

Rename OV02C10_MCLK to OV02C10_MCLK_19_2MHZ, add OV02C10_MCLK_26MHZ and
accept both.

The PLL register tables are the 19.2 MHz ones; OmniVision's 26 MHz PLL
programming is not publicly available. With a 26 MHz input the same
dividers make every internal clock, and therefore the MIPI link, run
26/19.2 = 1.3542x faster: a ~541.7 MHz link and ~40 fps instead of the
nominal 400 MHz / 30 fps. Rather than leave link-frequency and
pixel-rate describing the 19.2 MHz case, add a second
V4L2_CID_LINK_FREQ menu entry (400 MHz * 26 / 19.2) and select it when
the external clock is 26 MHz. pixel-rate is derived from the link
frequency and scales with it, so the frame rate and exposure times
reported to userspace match the hardware, and the IPU6 CSI-2 receiver
programs its D-PHY high-speed frequency range and bandwidth budget for
the rate the sensor actually transmits.

The ipu-bridge fwnode only lists the nominal 400 MHz link frequency
(keyed by ACPI HID, not by clock rate), so v4l2_link_freq_to_bitmap()
still matches on the 400 MHz entry and the 541.7 MHz index is selected
explicitly for the 26 MHz case.

On a Meteor Lake test machine a single CSI-2 "frame sync error" may
still be logged by the IPU6 receiver at stream start, after which
capture runs cleanly; this looks like a sensor PLL settling transient
and is not addressed here.

While touching the clock check, terminate its error string with a
newline.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Calliari <calliarifelipe@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/i2c/ov02c10.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov02c10.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov02c10.c
index 114db38c0..5184eb1cc 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov02c10.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov02c10.c
@@ -16,7 +16,16 @@
#include <media/v4l2-fwnode.h>

#define OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_400MHZ 400000000ULL
-#define OV02C10_MCLK 19200000
+/*
+ * The PLL register tables target a 19.2 MHz input clock. On boards that
+ * clock the sensor at 26 MHz the same dividers yield a 26/19.2 = 1.3542x
+ * faster MIPI link (and frame rate). OmniVision's 26 MHz PLL values are
+ * not public, so rather than re-normalise the link the driver advertises
+ * the real, scaled link frequency: 400 MHz * 26 / 19.2 = 541.667 MHz.
+ */
+#define OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_541MHZ 541666667ULL
+#define OV02C10_MCLK_19_2MHZ 19200000
+#define OV02C10_MCLK_26MHZ 26000000
#define OV02C10_RGB_DEPTH 10

#define OV02C10_NATIVE_WIDTH 1928
@@ -345,8 +354,14 @@ static const char * const ov02c10_test_pattern_menu[] = {
"Color Bar type 4",
};

+enum {
+ OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_400MHZ_IDX, /* 19.2 MHz external clock */
+ OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_541MHZ_IDX, /* 26 MHz external clock */
+};
+
static const s64 link_freq_menu_items[] = {
- OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_400MHZ,
+ [OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_400MHZ_IDX] = OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_400MHZ,
+ [OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_541MHZ_IDX] = OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_541MHZ,
};

static const struct ov02c10_mode supported_modes[] = {
@@ -396,6 +411,9 @@ struct ov02c10 {
/* MIPI lane info */
u32 link_freq_index;
u8 mipi_lanes;
+
+ /* External (sensor) clock rate, Hz */
+ u32 xvclk_freq;
};

static inline struct ov02c10 *to_ov02c10(struct v4l2_subdev *subdev)
@@ -507,7 +525,8 @@ static int ov02c10_init_controls(struct ov02c10 *ov02c10)
ov02c10->link_freq = v4l2_ctrl_new_int_menu(ctrl_hdlr,
&ov02c10_ctrl_ops,
V4L2_CID_LINK_FREQ,
- ov02c10->link_freq_index, 0,
+ ov02c10->link_freq_index,
+ ov02c10->link_freq_index,
link_freq_menu_items);
if (ov02c10->link_freq)
ov02c10->link_freq->flags |= V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_READ_ONLY;
@@ -875,6 +894,21 @@ static int ov02c10_check_hwcfg(struct ov02c10 *ov02c10)
/* v4l2_link_freq_to_bitmap() guarantees at least 1 bit is set */
ov02c10->link_freq_index = ffs(link_freq_bitmap) - 1;

+ /*
+ * The IPU6 ipu-bridge always describes the nominal 19.2 MHz link
+ * (400 MHz) in the fwnode, keyed by ACPI HID, even on boards that
+ * clock the sensor at 26 MHz. There the real link frequency is
+ * 26/19.2 higher; advertise it so the CSI-2 receiver programs its
+ * D-PHY frequency band and bandwidth budget for the rate the sensor
+ * actually transmits.
+ */
+ if (ov02c10->xvclk_freq == OV02C10_MCLK_26MHZ)
+ ov02c10->link_freq_index = OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_541MHZ_IDX;
+
+ dev_dbg(dev, "%u Hz external clock, link freq %lld Hz\n",
+ ov02c10->xvclk_freq,
+ link_freq_menu_items[ov02c10->link_freq_index]);
+
if (bus_cfg.bus.mipi_csi2.num_data_lanes != 1 &&
bus_cfg.bus.mipi_csi2.num_data_lanes != 2) {
ret = dev_err_probe(dev, -EINVAL,
@@ -924,10 +958,11 @@ static int ov02c10_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
"failed to get imaging clock\n");

freq = clk_get_rate(ov02c10->img_clk);
- if (freq != OV02C10_MCLK)
+ if (freq != OV02C10_MCLK_19_2MHZ && freq != OV02C10_MCLK_26MHZ)
return dev_err_probe(ov02c10->dev, -EINVAL,
- "external clock %lu is not supported",
+ "external clock %lu is not supported\n",
freq);
+ ov02c10->xvclk_freq = freq;

v4l2_i2c_subdev_init(&ov02c10->sd, client, &ov02c10_subdev_ops);

--
2.55.0