Commit fa88fbda authored by Rui Miguel Silva's avatar Rui Miguel Silva Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

media: imx7.rst: add documentation for i.MX7 media driver

Add rst document to describe the i.MX7 media driver and also a working
example from the Warp7 board usage with a OV2680 sensor.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRui Miguel Silva <rui.silva@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
parent 7807063b
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
i.MX7 Video Capture Driver
==========================
Introduction
------------
The i.MX7 contrary to the i.MX5/6 family does not contain an Image Processing
Unit (IPU); because of that the capabilities to perform operations or
manipulation of the capture frames are less feature rich.
For image capture the i.MX7 has three units:
- CMOS Sensor Interface (CSI)
- Video Multiplexer
- MIPI CSI-2 Receiver
::
|\
MIPI Camera Input ---> MIPI CSI-2 --- > | \
| \
| M |
| U | ------> CSI ---> Capture
| X |
| /
Parallel Camera Input ----------------> | /
|/
For additional information, please refer to the latest versions of the i.MX7
reference manual [#f1]_.
Entities
--------
imx7-mipi-csi2
--------------
This is the MIPI CSI-2 receiver entity. It has one sink pad to receive the pixel
data from MIPI CSI-2 camera sensor. It has one source pad, corresponding to the
virtual channel 0. This module is compliant to previous version of Samsung
D-phy, and supports two D-PHY Rx Data lanes.
csi_mux
-------
This is the video multiplexer. It has two sink pads to select from either camera
sensor with a parallel interface or from MIPI CSI-2 virtual channel 0. It has
a single source pad that routes to the CSI.
csi
---
The CSI enables the chip to connect directly to external CMOS image sensor. CSI
can interface directly with Parallel and MIPI CSI-2 buses. It has 256 x 64 FIFO
to store received image pixel data and embedded DMA controllers to transfer data
from the FIFO through AHB bus.
This entity has one sink pad that receives from the csi_mux entity and a single
source pad that routes video frames directly to memory buffers. This pad is
routed to a capture device node.
Usage Notes
-----------
To aid in configuration and for backward compatibility with V4L2 applications
that access controls only from video device nodes, the capture device interfaces
inherit controls from the active entities in the current pipeline, so controls
can be accessed either directly from the subdev or from the active capture
device interface. For example, the sensor controls are available either from the
sensor subdevs or from the active capture device.
Warp7 with OV2680
-----------------
On this platform an OV2680 MIPI CSI-2 module is connected to the internal MIPI
CSI-2 receiver. The following example configures a video capture pipeline with
an output of 800x600, and BGGR 10 bit bayer format:
.. code-block:: none
# Setup links
media-ctl -l "'ov2680 1-0036':0 -> 'imx7-mipi-csis.0':0[1]"
media-ctl -l "'imx7-mipi-csis.0':1 -> 'csi_mux':1[1]"
media-ctl -l "'csi_mux':2 -> 'csi':0[1]"
media-ctl -l "'csi':1 -> 'csi capture':0[1]"
# Configure pads for pipeline
media-ctl -V "'ov2680 1-0036':0 [fmt:SBGGR10_1X10/800x600 field:none]"
media-ctl -V "'csi_mux':1 [fmt:SBGGR10_1X10/800x600 field:none]"
media-ctl -V "'csi_mux':2 [fmt:SBGGR10_1X10/800x600 field:none]"
media-ctl -V "'imx7-mipi-csis.0':0 [fmt:SBGGR10_1X10/800x600 field:none]"
media-ctl -V "'csi':0 [fmt:SBGGR10_1X10/800x600 field:none]"
After this streaming can start. The v4l2-ctl tool can be used to select any of
the resolutions supported by the sensor.
.. code-block:: none
root@imx7s-warp:~# media-ctl -p
Media controller API version 4.17.0
Media device information
------------------------
driver imx-media
model imx-media
serial
bus info
hw revision 0x0
driver version 4.17.0
Device topology
- entity 1: csi (2 pads, 2 links)
type V4L2 subdev subtype Unknown flags 0
device node name /dev/v4l-subdev0
pad0: Sink
[fmt:SBGGR10_1X10/800x600 field:none]
<- "csi_mux":2 [ENABLED]
pad1: Source
[fmt:SBGGR10_1X10/800x600 field:none]
-> "csi capture":0 [ENABLED]
- entity 4: csi capture (1 pad, 1 link)
type Node subtype V4L flags 0
device node name /dev/video0
pad0: Sink
<- "csi":1 [ENABLED]
- entity 10: csi_mux (3 pads, 2 links)
type V4L2 subdev subtype Unknown flags 0
device node name /dev/v4l-subdev1
pad0: Sink
[fmt:unknown/0x0]
pad1: Sink
[fmt:unknown/800x600 field:none]
<- "imx7-mipi-csis.0":1 [ENABLED]
pad2: Source
[fmt:unknown/800x600 field:none]
-> "csi":0 [ENABLED]
- entity 14: imx7-mipi-csis.0 (2 pads, 2 links)
type V4L2 subdev subtype Unknown flags 0
device node name /dev/v4l-subdev2
pad0: Sink
[fmt:SBGGR10_1X10/800x600 field:none]
<- "ov2680 1-0036":0 [ENABLED]
pad1: Source
[fmt:SBGGR10_1X10/800x600 field:none]
-> "csi_mux":1 [ENABLED]
- entity 17: ov2680 1-0036 (1 pad, 1 link)
type V4L2 subdev subtype Sensor flags 0
device node name /dev/v4l-subdev3
pad0: Source
[fmt:SBGGR10_1X10/800x600 field:none]
-> "imx7-mipi-csis.0":0 [ENABLED]
References
----------
.. [#f1] https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/IMX7SRM.pdf
......@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ For more details see the file COPYING in the source distribution of Linux.
davinci-vpbe
fimc
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ivtv
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