Commit 50435d8d authored by Sakari Ailus's avatar Sakari Ailus Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

media: v4l: Documentation: Serial busses use parallel mbus codes

When the support for serial busses was introduced in V4L2, it was decided
to use the existing parallel bus media bus pixel codes to describe them.
While this was a practical choice at the time, it necessitates choosing
which one of the many parallel mbus pixel codes to use, for on the serial
busses these formats are effectively all equivalent.

The practice has always been to use the pixel code that describes a bus
that transfers a single sample per clock. Document this.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
parent 092e8eb9
......@@ -72,3 +72,10 @@ the transmitter up by using the
:c:type:`v4l2_subdev_core_ops`->s_power() callback. This may take
place either indirectly by using :c:func:`v4l2_pipeline_pm_use` or
directly.
Formats
-------
The media bus pixel codes document parallel formats. Should the pixel data be
transported over a serial bus, the media bus pixel code that describes a
parallel format that transfers a sample on a single clock cycle is used.
......@@ -85,6 +85,14 @@ formats in memory (a raw Bayer image won't be magically converted to
JPEG just by storing it to memory), there is no one-to-one
correspondence between them.
The media bus pixel codes document parallel formats. Should the pixel data be
transported over a serial bus, the media bus pixel code that describes a
parallel format that transfers a sample on a single clock cycle is used. For
instance, both MEDIA_BUS_FMT_BGR888_1X24 and MEDIA_BUS_FMT_BGR888_3X8 are used
on parallel busses for transferring an 8 bits per sample BGR data, whereas on
serial busses the data in this format is only referred to using
MEDIA_BUS_FMT_BGR888_1X24. This is because there is effectively only a single
way to transport that format on the serial busses.
Packed RGB Formats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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