Re: [PATCH] media: Add 16-bit Bayer formats

[Kieran Bingham]

Hi Dorota,

Quoting Dorota Czaplejewicz (2021-10-19 12:59:29)
> 16-bit bayer formats are used by the i.MX driver.

Can we expand upon this at all?

The Subject says "Add 16-bit Bayer formats" but this isn't adding the
format, it's purely extending the v4l2_format_info table with the
information for that format which is otherwise missing.

I wonder what other formats are missing from that table too?


> Signed-off-by: Dorota Czaplejewicz <dorota.czaplejewicz@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hello,
> 
> While working on the i.MX8 video driver, I discovered that `v4l2_fill_pixfmt` will fail when using 10-bit sensor formats. (For background, see the conversation at https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/17/93 .)
> 
> It appears that the video hardware will fill a 16-bit-per-pixel buffer when fed 10-bit-per-pixel Bayer data, making `v4l2_fill_pixfmt` effectively broken for this case.

This statement is confusing to me. Are you saying you're programming the
hardware with 10 bit, and it's using 16 bits per pixel to store that
data? (Which is simply 'unpacked' I think ?)


> 
> This change adds the relevant entries to the format info structure.
> 
> Difference in behaviour observed using the i846 driver on the Librem 5.
> 
> Regards,
> Dorota Czaplejewicz
> 
>  drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-common.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-common.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-common.c
> index 04af03285a20..d2e61538e979 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-common.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-common.c
> @@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ const struct v4l2_format_info *v4l2_format_info(u32 format)
>                 { .format = V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGBRG12,       .pixel_enc = V4L2_PIXEL_ENC_BAYER, .mem_planes = 1, .comp_planes = 1, .bpp = { 2, 0, 0, 0 }, .hdiv = 1, .vdiv = 1 },
>                 { .format = V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGRBG12,       .pixel_enc = V4L2_PIXEL_ENC_BAYER, .mem_planes = 1, .comp_planes = 1, .bpp = { 2, 0, 0, 0 }, .hdiv = 1, .vdiv = 1 },
>                 { .format = V4L2_PIX_FMT_SRGGB12,       .pixel_enc = V4L2_PIXEL_ENC_BAYER, .mem_planes = 1, .comp_planes = 1, .bpp = { 2, 0, 0, 0 }, .hdiv = 1, .vdiv = 1 },
> +               { .format = V4L2_PIX_FMT_SBGGR16,       .pixel_enc = V4L2_PIXEL_ENC_BAYER, .mem_planes = 1, .comp_planes = 1, .bpp = { 2, 0, 0, 0 }, .hdiv = 1, .vdiv = 1 },
> +               { .format = V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGBRG16,       .pixel_enc = V4L2_PIXEL_ENC_BAYER, .mem_planes = 1, .comp_planes = 1, .bpp = { 2, 0, 0, 0 }, .hdiv = 1, .vdiv = 1 },
> +               { .format = V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGRBG16,       .pixel_enc = V4L2_PIXEL_ENC_BAYER, .mem_planes = 1, .comp_planes = 1, .bpp = { 2, 0, 0, 0 }, .hdiv = 1, .vdiv = 1 },
> +               { .format = V4L2_PIX_FMT_SRGGB16,       .pixel_enc = V4L2_PIXEL_ENC_BAYER, .mem_planes = 1, .comp_planes = 1, .bpp = { 2, 0, 0, 0 }, .hdiv = 1, .vdiv = 1 },

This looks right as far as I can see though, so for the change, and
ideally with the commit message improved to be clearer about the
content and reasoning for the change:

Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>         };
>         unsigned int i;
>  
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>