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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-13 09:37:02 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-13 09:37:02 -0700 |
commit | fd5c32d80884268a381ed0e67cccef0b3d37750b (patch) | |
tree | e5f8844e8c5aa5a7f7dec265d765d3b31cca8be5 /Documentation/driver-api/media/camera-sensor.rst | |
parent | 647412daeb454b6dad12a6c6961ab90aac9e5d29 (diff) | |
parent | c386e0797d26a32e354daf4480c5d40165db66a1 (diff) |
Merge tag 'media/v5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- the usbvision driver was dropped from staging
- the Zoran driver were re-added at staging. It gained lots of
improvements, and was converted to use videobuf2 API
- a new virtual driver (vidtv) was added in order to allow testing the
digital TV framework and APIs
- the media uAPI documentation gained a glossary with commonly used
terms, helping to simplify some parts of the docs
- more cleanups at the atomisp driver
- Mediatek VPU gained support for MT8183
- added support for codecs with supports doing colorspace conversion
(CSC)
- support for CSC API was added at vivid and rksip1 drivers
- added a helper core support and uAPI for better supporting H.264
codecs
- added support for Renesas R8A774E1
- use the new SPDX GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later license on media
uAPI docs, instead of a license text
- Venus driver has gained VP9 codec support
- lots of other cleanups and driver improvements
* tag 'media/v5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (555 commits)
media: dvb-frontends/drxk_hard.c: fix uninitialized variable warning
media: tvp7002: fix uninitialized variable warning
media: s5k5baf: drop 'data' field in struct s5k5baf_fw
media: dt-bindings: media: venus: Add an optional power domain for perf voting
media: rcar-vin: rcar-dma: Fix setting VNIS_REG for RAW8 formats
media: staging: rkisp1: uapi: Do not use BIT() macro
media: v4l2-mem2mem: Fix spurious v4l2_m2m_buf_done
media: usbtv: Fix refcounting mixup
media: zoran.rst: place it at the right place this time
media: add Zoran cardlist
media: admin-guide: update cardlists
media: siano: rename a duplicated card string
media: zoran: move documentation file to the right place
media: atomisp: fixes build breakage for ISP2400 due to a cleanup
media: zoran: fix mixed case on vars
media: zoran: get rid of an unused var
media: zoran: use upper case for card types
media: zoran: fix sparse warnings
media: zoran: fix smatch warning
media: zoran: update TODO
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/camera-sensor.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/camera-sensor.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4d1ae12b9b4d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/camera-sensor.rst @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Writing camera sensor drivers +============================= + +CSI-2 +----- + +Please see what is written on :ref:`MIPI_CSI_2`. + +Handling clocks +--------------- + +Camera sensors have an internal clock tree including a PLL and a number of +divisors. The clock tree is generally configured by the driver based on a few +input parameters that are specific to the hardware:: the external clock frequency +and the link frequency. The two parameters generally are obtained from system +firmware. No other frequencies should be used in any circumstances. + +The reason why the clock frequencies are so important is that the clock signals +come out of the SoC, and in many cases a specific frequency is designed to be +used in the system. Using another frequency may cause harmful effects +elsewhere. Therefore only the pre-determined frequencies are configurable by the +user. + +Frame size +---------- + +There are two distinct ways to configure the frame size produced by camera +sensors. + +Freely configurable camera sensor drivers +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Freely configurable camera sensor drivers expose the device's internal +processing pipeline as one or more sub-devices with different cropping and +scaling configurations. The output size of the device is the result of a series +of cropping and scaling operations from the device's pixel array's size. + +An example of such a driver is the smiapp driver (see drivers/media/i2c/smiapp). + +Register list based drivers +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Register list based drivers generally, instead of able to configure the device +they control based on user requests, are limited to a number of preset +configurations that combine a number of different parameters that on hardware +level are independent. How a driver picks such configuration is based on the +format set on a source pad at the end of the device's internal pipeline. + +Most sensor drivers are implemented this way, see e.g. +drivers/media/i2c/imx319.c for an example. + +Frame interval configuration +---------------------------- + +There are two different methods for obtaining possibilities for different frame +intervals as well as configuring the frame interval. Which one to implement +depends on the type of the device. + +Raw camera sensors +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Instead of a high level parameter such as frame interval, the frame interval is +a result of the configuration of a number of camera sensor implementation +specific parameters. Luckily, these parameters tend to be the same for more or +less all modern raw camera sensors. + +The frame interval is calculated using the following equation:: + + frame interval = (analogue crop width + horizontal blanking) * + (analogue crop height + vertical blanking) / pixel rate + +The formula is bus independent and is applicable for raw timing parameters on +large variety of devices beyond camera sensors. Devices that have no analogue +crop, use the full source image size, i.e. pixel array size. + +Horizontal and vertical blanking are specified by ``V4L2_CID_HBLANK`` and +``V4L2_CID_VBLANK``, respectively. The unit of these controls are lines. The +pixel rate is specified by ``V4L2_CID_PIXEL_RATE`` in the same sub-device. The +unit of that control is Hz. + +Register list based drivers need to implement read-only sub-device nodes for the +purpose. Devices that are not register list based need these to configure the +device's internal processing pipeline. + +The first entity in the linear pipeline is the pixel array. The pixel array may +be followed by other entities that are there to allow configuring binning, +skipping, scaling or digital crop :ref:`v4l2-subdev-selections`. + +USB cameras etc. devices +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +USB video class hardware, as well as many cameras offering a similar higher +level interface natively, generally use the concept of frame interval (or frame +rate) on device level in firmware or hardware. This means lower level controls +implemented by raw cameras may not be used on uAPI (or even kAPI) to control the +frame interval on these devices. + +Power management +---------------- + +Always use runtime PM to manage the power states of your device. Camera sensor +drivers are in no way special in this respect: they are responsible for +controlling the power state of the device they otherwise control as well. In +general, the device must be powered on at least when its registers are being +accessed and when it is streaming. + +Existing camera sensor drivers may rely on the old +:c:type:`v4l2_subdev_core_ops`->s_power() callback for bridge or ISP drivers to +manage their power state. This is however **deprecated**. If you feel you need +to begin calling an s_power from an ISP or a bridge driver, instead please add +runtime PM support to the sensor driver you are using. Likewise, new drivers +should not use s_power. + +Please see examples in e.g. ``drivers/media/i2c/ov8856.c`` and +``drivers/media/i2c/smiapp/smiapp-core.c``. The two drivers work in both ACPI +and DT based systems. + +Control framework +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +``v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup()`` function may not be used in the device's runtime +PM ``runtime_resume`` callback, as it has no way to figure out the power state +of the device. This is because the power state of the device is only changed +after the power state transition has taken place. The ``s_ctrl`` callback can be +used to obtain device's power state after the power state transition: + +.. c:function:: + int pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(struct device *dev); + +The function returns a non-zero value if it succeeded getting the power count or +runtime PM was disabled, in either of which cases the driver may proceed to +access the device. |