[PATCH v2 3/3] media: ov02c10: Accept a 26 MHz external clock

From: Felipe Calliari

Date: Wed Sep 23 2026 - 10:51:41 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 register tables program the OP PLL multiplier (0x0304/0x0305, 16-bit)
to 0x0190 = 400 for a 19.2 MHz clock: the common table writes
0x0304 = 0x01 and the per-lane tables override 0x0305 = 0x90. Left alone
on a 26 MHz clock the same dividers run every internal clock, and
therefore the MIPI link, 26/19.2 = 1.3542x faster: a ~541.7 MHz link at
~40 fps instead of the nominal 400 MHz at ~30 fps.

Re-program both PLL multipliers by the inverse factor instead, so that
the link stays where the driver and the ipu-bridge fwnode already
describe it: 400 * 19.2 / 26 = 295 = 0x0127, written to 0x0304/0x0305
and 0x0315/0x0316 after the per-lane table when the external clock is
26 MHz. That puts the link at 295 * 26 / 19.2 = 399.5 MHz, within 0.13%
of the nominal 400 MHz, so link-frequency and pixel-rate stay accurate
with the single existing menu entry and the ipu-bridge needs no change.

Tested on a Samsung Galaxy Book3 (two CSI-2 data lanes, 26 MHz clock
confirmed via clk_summary): the multiplier registers read back 0x0127
while streaming and capture runs at a steady 30.01 fps by buffer
timestamp, against ~40 fps with the unmodified tables, matching the
30.14 fps that the exported hblank, vblank and pixel-rate describe.

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

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/ap_CGQTdNFysTLot@kekkonen.localdomain/
Signed-off-by: Felipe Calliari <calliarifelipe@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes in v2:
- Re-program the OP and VT PLL multipliers instead of advertising the
scaled 541.667 MHz link frequency (Sakari). The suggested 0x28a / 0x1b1
produce no output on this hardware; 0x0127 -- the 0x0190 the tables
already program, scaled by 19.2/26 -- does, and brings the frame rate
back to the nominal ~30 fps.
- Drop the second V4L2_CID_LINK_FREQ entry that v1 added: with the link
back at ~400 MHz the existing single entry matches the ipu-bridge
fwnode directly, so no ipu-bridge change is needed either.
- Bryan's Reviewed-by and the Tested-by on v1 are not carried over, as
the patch was rewritten.

drivers/media/i2c/ov02c10.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov02c10.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov02c10.c
index cdccbdef3..17208f2e6 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov02c10.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov02c10.c
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
#include <media/v4l2-fwnode.h>

#define OV02C10_LINK_FREQ_400MHZ 400000000ULL
-#define OV02C10_MCLK 19200000
+#define OV02C10_MCLK_19_2MHZ 19200000
+#define OV02C10_MCLK_26MHZ 26000000
#define OV02C10_RGB_DEPTH 10

#define OV02C10_NATIVE_WIDTH 1928
@@ -337,6 +338,23 @@ static const struct reg_sequence sensor_1928x1092_30fps_2lane_setting[] = {
{0x3016, 0x32},
};

+/*
+ * The mode tables target a 19.2 MHz input clock, programming the OP PLL
+ * multiplier (0x0304/0x0305, 16-bit) to 0x0190 = 400 for a 400 MHz link at
+ * ~30 fps. A 26 MHz input clock instead runs every internal clock, and
+ * therefore the MIPI link, 26/19.2 = 1.3542x faster (~541.7 MHz, ~40 fps).
+ * Scaling both PLL multipliers by 19.2/26 -- 400 * 19.2 / 26 = 295 = 0x0127
+ * -- puts the link back at 295 * 26 / 19.2 = 399.5 MHz, within 0.13% of the
+ * nominal 400 MHz, so the frame rate and the advertised link frequency both
+ * stay correct without a second link-frequency entry.
+ */
+static const struct reg_sequence sensor_pll_26mhz_setting[] = {
+ {0x0304, 0x01},
+ {0x0305, 0x27},
+ {0x0315, 0x01},
+ {0x0316, 0x27},
+};
+
static const char * const ov02c10_test_pattern_menu[] = {
"Disabled",
"Color Bar",
@@ -396,6 +414,9 @@ 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)
@@ -619,6 +640,17 @@ static int ov02c10_enable_streams(struct v4l2_subdev *sd,
goto out;
}

+ if (ov02c10->xvclk_freq == OV02C10_MCLK_26MHZ) {
+ reg_sequence = sensor_pll_26mhz_setting;
+ sequence_length = ARRAY_SIZE(sensor_pll_26mhz_setting);
+ ret = regmap_multi_reg_write(ov02c10->regmap,
+ reg_sequence, sequence_length);
+ if (ret) {
+ dev_err(ov02c10->dev, "failed to write PLL settings\n");
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
+
ret = __v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup(ov02c10->sd.ctrl_handler);
if (ret)
goto out;
@@ -877,6 +909,10 @@ 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;

+ 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,
@@ -926,10 +962,11 @@ 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