Hi Sylwester, On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawro...@samsung.com> wrote: > On 07/17/2013 06:55 AM, Arun Kumar K wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Sylwester Nawrocki >> <sylvester.nawro...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 07/09/2013 02:04 PM, Arun Kumar K wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Hans Verkuil<hverk...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Fri May 31 2013 15:03:23 Arun Kumar K wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> FIMC-IS uses certain sensors which are exclusively controlled >>>>>> from the IS firmware. This patch adds the sensor subdev for the >>>>>> fimc-is sensors. >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Arun Kumar K<arun...@samsung.com> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kilyeon Im<kilyeon...@samsung.com> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Not surprisingly I really hate the idea of sensor drivers that are tied >>>>> to >>>>> a specific SoC, since it completely destroys the reusability of such >>>>> drivers. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yes agree to it. >>>> >>>>> I understand that you have little choice to do something special here, >>>>> but >>>>> I was wondering whether there is a way of keeping things as generic as >>>>> possible. >>>>> >>>>> I'm just brainstorming here, but as far as I can see this driver is >>>>> basically >>>>> a partial sensor driver: it handles the clock, the format negotiation and >>>>> power management. Any sensor driver needs that. >>>>> >>>>> What would be nice is if the fmic specific parts are replaced by >>>>> callbacks >>>>> into the bridge driver using v4l2_subdev_notify(). >>>>> >>>>> The platform data (or DT) can also state if this sensor is firmware >>>>> controlled >>>>> or not. If not, then the missing bits can be implemented in the future by >>>>> someone who needs that. >>>>> >>>>> That way the driver itself remains independent from fimc. >>>>> >>>>> And existing sensor drivers can be adapted to be usable with fimc as well >>>>> by >>>>> adding support for the notify callback. >>>>> >>>>> Would a scheme along those lines work? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yes this should make the implementation very generic. >>>> Will check the feasibility of this approach. >>> >>> >>> Is I suggested earlier, you likely could do without this call back to the >>> FIMC-IS from within the sensor subdev. Look at your call chain right now: >>> >>> /dev/video? media-dev-driver sensor-subdev FIMC-IS >>> | | | | >>> | VIDIOC_STREAMON | | | >>> |----------------># s_stream() | | >>> | #------------------># pipeline_open() | >>> | | # ---------------->| >>> | | # pipeline_start() | >>> | | # ---------------->| >>> | | | | >>> >>> Couldn't you move pipeline_open(), pipeline_start() to s_stream handler >>> of the ISP subdev ? It is currently empty. The media device driver could >>> call s_stream on the ISP subdev each time it sees s_stream request on >>> the sensor subdev. And you wouldn't need any hacks to get the pipeline >>> pointer in the sensor subdev. Then it would be something like: >>> >>> /dev/video? media-dev-driver sensor-subdev FIMC-IS-ISP-subdev >>> | | | | >>> | VIDIOC_STREAMON | | | >>> |----------------># s_stream() | | >>> | #------------------>| | >>> | # s_stream() | | >>> | #-------------------+------------># pipeline_open() >>> | | | # pipeline_start() >>> | | | # >>> >>> I suppose pipeline_open() is better candidate for the s_power callback. >>> It just needs to be ensured at the media device level the subdev >>> operations sequences are correct. >>> >> >> It can be done this way. But my intention of putting these calls in >> the sensor subdev was to use the sensor subdev independent of >> isp subdev. This is for the usecase where the pipeline will only contain >> >> is-sensor --> mipi-csis --> fimc-lite ---> memory >> >> This way you can capture the bayer rgb data from sensor without using >> any isp components at all. >> >> The second pipeline which is isp --> scc --> scp >> can be used for processing the sensor data and can be created and >> used if needed. >> >> In the method you mentioned, the isp subdev has to be used even >> when it is not part of the pipeline. Is that allowed? >> If its allowed as per media pipeline guidelines, then this definitely >> is a better approach. Please suggest on this. > > Sure, I'm aware of those two relatively separate pipelines. s_power, > s_stream callbacks belong to the kernel so I don't think it would be > an issue to do it as I described. Please note s_power, s_stream are > normally reference counted. > Alternatively you could create a separate subdev for the FIMC-IS > firmware interface. Such subdev wouldn't be exposing device node > and would be used by the media pipeline controller driver to ensure > proper hardware configuration sequences. I don't know the Exynos5 > FIMC-IS firmware architecture very well so I'm not sure if it is > worth to create such a separate subdev as the firmware interface > obstruction layer ;) I guess we could do only with subdevs that > are exposed to user space. >
Ok I will move those calls to the ISP subdev and sequence the s_stream, s_power calls properly using media device. Thanks & Regards Arun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
