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authorMarvin Lin <milkfafa@gmail.com>2023-09-22 14:24:04 +0800
committerHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>2023-09-27 09:40:02 +0200
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tree52e3baf97b562c5b5a9b726a82b1a9fb0a66310a /Documentation/userspace-api
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media: uapi: Add controls for NPCM video driver
Create controls for Nuvoton NPCM video driver to support setting capture mode of Video Capture/Differentiation (VCD) engine and getting the count of HEXTILE rectangles that is compressed by Encoding Compression Engine (ECE). Signed-off-by: Marvin Lin <milkfafa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
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@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ For more details see the file COPYING in the source distribution of Linux.
dw100
imx-uapi
max2175
+ npcm-video
omap3isp-uapi
st-vgxy61
uvcvideo
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/npcm-video.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/npcm-video.rst
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
+NPCM video driver
+=================
+
+This driver is used to control the Video Capture/Differentiation (VCD) engine
+and Encoding Compression Engine (ECE) present on Nuvoton NPCM SoCs. The VCD can
+capture a frame from digital video input and compare two frames in memory, and
+the ECE can compress the frame data into HEXTILE format.
+
+Driver-specific Controls
+------------------------
+
+V4L2_CID_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The VCD engine supports two modes:
+
+- COMPLETE mode:
+
+ Capture the next complete frame into memory.
+
+- DIFF mode:
+
+ Compare the incoming frame with the frame stored in memory, and updates the
+ differentiated frame in memory.
+
+Application can use ``V4L2_CID_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE`` control to set the VCD mode
+with different control values (enum v4l2_npcm_capture_mode):
+
+- ``V4L2_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE_COMPLETE``: will set VCD to COMPLETE mode.
+- ``V4L2_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE_DIFF``: will set VCD to DIFF mode.
+
+V4L2_CID_NPCM_RECT_COUNT
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+If using V4L2_PIX_FMT_HEXTILE format, VCD will capture frame data and then ECE
+will compress the data into HEXTILE rectangles and store them in V4L2 video
+buffer with the layout defined in Remote Framebuffer Protocol:
+::
+
+ (RFC 6143, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6143.html#section-7.6.1)
+
+ +--------------+--------------+-------------------+
+ | No. of bytes | Type [Value] | Description |
+ +--------------+--------------+-------------------+
+ | 2 | U16 | x-position |
+ | 2 | U16 | y-position |
+ | 2 | U16 | width |
+ | 2 | U16 | height |
+ | 4 | S32 | encoding-type (5) |
+ +--------------+--------------+-------------------+
+ | HEXTILE rectangle data |
+ +-------------------------------------------------+
+
+Application can get the video buffer through VIDIOC_DQBUF, and followed by
+calling ``V4L2_CID_NPCM_RECT_COUNT`` control to get the number of HEXTILE
+rectangles in this buffer.
+
+References
+----------
+include/uapi/linux/npcm-video.h
+
+**Copyright** |copy| 2022 Nuvoton Technologies