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

[Maxime Ripard]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 03:01:45PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 11/13/18 14:52, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Hi Hans,
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 01:30:49PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > I will, thanks for the tip!
> > 
> >>> v4l2-compliance SHA   : 339d550e92ac15de8668f32d66d16f198137006c
> >>
> >> Hmm, I can't find this SHA. Was this built from the main v4l-utils repo?
> > 
> > It was, but using Buildroot. The version packaged in the latest stable
> > version I was using (2018.08) is 1.14.2.
> 
> That's seriously out of date. That's why I show the SHA, to see if
> someone is testing with a recent version of the utility, so it served
> its purpose here :-)
> 
> Latest release is 1.16.2.
> 
> But when submitting new drivers you really need to build it yourself from
> the master branch, that's the only way to be sure you have all the latest
> compliance checks.

Ack, I'll update it and test again then.

> > 
> > Looking at the Makefile from v4l2-compliance, it looks like it just
> > invokes git to retrieve the git commit and uses that as the hash. In
> > Buildroot's case, since buildroot will download the tarball, this will
> > end up returning the SHA commit of the buildroot repo building the
> > sources, not the version of the sources themselves.
> > 
> > I'm not sure how to address that properly though. Thomas, how do you
> > usually deal with this?
> 
> Note that cec-compliance and cec-follower do the same, for the same
> reason.
> 
> Where does the tarball come from?

This is the official tarball from linuxtv:
https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/libv4l/libv4l.mk?h=2018.08.2#n8

Maxime

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