Re: [PATCH 0/5] media: Allwinner A10 CSI support

From: Hans Verkuil
Date: Tue Nov 13 2018 - 07:30:57 EST


On 11/13/18 09:24, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a series introducing the support for the A10 (and SoCs of the same
> generation) CMOS Sensor Interface (called CSI, not to be confused with
> MIPI-CSI, which isn't support by that IP).
>
> That interface is pretty straightforward, but the driver has a few issues
> that I wanted to bring up:
>
> * The only board I've been testing this with has an ov5640 sensor
> attached, which doesn't work with the upstream driver. Copying the
> Allwinner init sequence works though, and this is how it has been
> tested. Testing with a second sensor would allow to see if it's an
> issue on the CSI side or the sensor side.
> * When starting a capture, the last buffer to capture will fail due to
> double buffering being used, and we don't have a next buffer for the
> last frame. I'm not sure how to deal with that though. It seems like
> some drivers use a scratch buffer in such a case, some don't care, so
> I'm not sure which solution should be preferred.
> * We don't have support for the ISP at the moment, but this can be added
> eventually.
>
> * How to model the CSI module clock isn't really clear to me. It looks
> like it goes through the CSI controller and then is muxed to one of the
> CSI pin so that it can clock the sensor. I'm not quite sure how to
> model it, if it should be a clock, the CSI driver being a clock
> provider, or if the sensor should just use the module clock directly.
>
> Here is the v4l2-compliance output:

Test v4l2-compliance with the -s option so you test streaming as well.
Even better is -f where it tests streaming with all available formats.

> v4l2-compliance SHA : 339d550e92ac15de8668f32d66d16f198137006c

Hmm, I can't find this SHA. Was this built from the main v4l-utils repo?

Regards,

Hans

>
> Driver Info:
> Driver name : sun4i_csi
> Card type : sun4i-csi
> Bus info : platform:1c09000.csi
> Driver version: 4.19.0
> Capabilities : 0x84201000
> Video Capture Multiplanar
> Streaming
> Extended Pix Format
> Device Capabilities
> Device Caps : 0x04201000
> Video Capture Multiplanar
> Streaming
> Extended Pix Format
>
> Compliance test for device /dev/video0 (not using libv4l2):
>
> Required ioctls:
> test VIDIOC_QUERYCAP: OK
>
> Allow for multiple opens:
> test second video open: OK
> test VIDIOC_QUERYCAP: OK
> test VIDIOC_G/S_PRIORITY: OK
> test for unlimited opens: OK
>
> Debug ioctls:
> test VIDIOC_DBG_G/S_REGISTER: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS: OK (Not Supported)
>
> Input ioctls:
> test VIDIOC_G/S_TUNER/ENUM_FREQ_BANDS: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G/S_FREQUENCY: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_S_HW_FREQ_SEEK: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMINPUT: OK
> test VIDIOC_G/S_AUDIO: OK (Not Supported)
> Inputs: 1 Audio Inputs: 0 Tuners: 0
>
> Output ioctls:
> test VIDIOC_G/S_MODULATOR: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G/S_FREQUENCY: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_ENUMAUDOUT: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G/S/ENUMOUTPUT: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G/S_AUDOUT: OK (Not Supported)
> Outputs: 0 Audio Outputs: 0 Modulators: 0
>
> Input/Output configuration ioctls:
> test VIDIOC_ENUM/G/S/QUERY_STD: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_ENUM/G/S/QUERY_DV_TIMINGS: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_DV_TIMINGS_CAP: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G/S_EDID: OK (Not Supported)
>
> Test input 0:
>
> Control ioctls:
> test VIDIOC_QUERY_EXT_CTRL/QUERYMENU: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G/S_CTRL: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G/S/TRY_EXT_CTRLS: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_(UN)SUBSCRIBE_EVENT/DQEVENT: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G/S_JPEGCOMP: OK (Not Supported)
> Standard Controls: 0 Private Controls: 0
>
> Format ioctls:
> test VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT/FRAMESIZES/FRAMEINTERVALS: OK
> test VIDIOC_G/S_PARM: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G_FBUF: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G_FMT: OK
> test VIDIOC_TRY_FMT: OK
> test VIDIOC_S_FMT: OK
> test VIDIOC_G_SLICED_VBI_CAP: OK (Not Supported)
> test Cropping: OK (Not Supported)
> test Composing: OK (Not Supported)
> test Scaling: OK
>
> Codec ioctls:
> test VIDIOC_(TRY_)ENCODER_CMD: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_G_ENC_INDEX: OK (Not Supported)
> test VIDIOC_(TRY_)DECODER_CMD: OK (Not Supported)
>
> Buffer ioctls:
> test VIDIOC_REQBUFS/CREATE_BUFS/QUERYBUF: OK
> test VIDIOC_EXPBUF: OK
>
> Test input 0:
>
> Total: 43, Succeeded: 43, Failed: 0, Warnings: 0
>
> Let me know what you think,
> Maxime
>
> Maxime Ripard (5):
> dt-bindings: media: Add Allwinner A10 CSI binding
> media: sunxi: Refactor the Makefile and Kconfig
> media: sunxi: Add A10 CSI driver
> ARM: dts: sun7i: Add CSI0 controller
> DO NOT MERGE: ARM: dts: bananapi: Add Camera support
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/sun4i-csi.txt | 71 ++-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-bananapi.dts | 98 +++-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi | 13 +-
> drivers/media/platform/Kconfig | 2 +-
> drivers/media/platform/Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/media/platform/sunxi/Kconfig | 2 +-
> drivers/media/platform/sunxi/Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/Kconfig | 12 +-
> drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/Makefile | 5 +-
> drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_csi.c | 275 ++++++++-
> drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_csi.h | 137 ++++-
> drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_dma.c | 383 +++++++++++-
> drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_v4l2.c | 287 ++++++++-
> 13 files changed, 1287 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/sun4i-csi.txt
> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/sunxi/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/sunxi/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_csi.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_csi.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_dma.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_v4l2.c
>
> base-commit: 94517eaa3d43005472864615dfd17f1ef6ca3935
>