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--- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/TODO
@@ -1,213 +1,113 @@
-For both Cherrytrail (CHT) and Baytrail (BHT) the driver
-requires the "candrpv_0415_20150521_0458" firmware version.
-It should be noticed that the firmware file is different,
-depending on the ISP model, so they're stored with different
-names:
+Required firmware
+=================
-- for BHT: /lib/firmware/shisp_2400b0_v21.bin
+The atomisp driver requires the following firmware:
- Warning: The driver was not tested yet for BHT.
+- for BYT: /lib/firmware/shisp_2400b0_v21.bin
-- for CHT: /lib/firmware/shisp_2401a0_v21.bin
-
- https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero-base/blob/master/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto/shisp_2401a0_v21.bin
-
-NOTE:
-=====
-
-This driver currently doesn't work with most V4L2 applications,
-as there are still some issues with regards to implementing
-certain APIs at the standard way.
-
-Also, currently only USERPTR streaming mode is working.
-
-In order to test, it is needed to know what's the sensor's
-resolution. This can be checked with:
-
-$ v4l2-ctl --get-fmt-video
- Format Video Capture:
- Width/Height : 1600/1200
- ...
+ With a version of "irci_stable_candrpv_0415_20150423_1753" to check
+ the version run: "strings shisp_2400b0_v21.bin | head -n1", sha256sum:
-It is known to work with:
+ 3847b95fb9f1f8352c595ba7394d55b33176751372baae17f89aa483ec02a21b shisp_2400b0_v21.bin
-- v4l2grab at contrib/test directory at https://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/
+ The shisp_2400b0_v21.bin file with this version can be found on
+ the Android factory images of various X86 Android tablets such as
+ e.g. the Chuwi Hi8 Pro.
- The resolution should not be bigger than the max resolution
- supported by the sensor, or it will fail. So, if the sensor
- reports:
-
- The driver can be tested with:
-
- v4l2grab -f YUYV -x 1600 -y 1200 -d /dev/video2 -u
+- for CHT: /lib/firmware/shisp_2401a0_v21.bin
-- NVT at https://github.com/intel/nvt
+ With a version of "irci_stable_candrpv_0415_20150521_0458", sha256sum:
- $ ./v4l2n -o testimage_@.raw \
- --device /dev/video2 \
- --input 0 \
- --exposure=30000,30000,30000,30000 \
- --parm type=1,capturemode=CI_MODE_PREVIEW \
- --fmt type=1,width=1600,height=1200,pixelformat=YUYV \
- --reqbufs count=2,memory=USERPTR \
- --parameters=wb_config.r=32768,wb_config.gr=21043,wb_config.gb=21043,wb_config.b=30863 \
- --capture=20
+ e89359f4e4934c410c83d525e283f34c5fcce9cb5caa75ad8a32d66d3842d95c shisp_2401a0_v21.bin
- As the output is in raw format, images need to be converted with:
+ This can be found here:
+ https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero-base/blob/master/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto/shisp_2401a0_v21.bin
- $ for i in $(seq 0 19); do
- name="testimage_$(printf "%03i" $i)"
- ./raw2pnm -x$WIDTH -y$HEIGHT -f$FORMAT $name.raw $name.pnm
- rm $name.raw
- done
TODO
====
-1. Fix support for MMAP streaming mode. This is required for most
- V4L2 applications;
-
-2. Implement and/or fix V4L2 ioctls in order to allow a normal app to
- use it;
-
-3. Ensure that the driver will pass v4l2-compliance tests;
-
-4. Get manufacturer's authorization to redistribute the binaries for
- the firmware files;
-
-5. remove VIDEO_ATOMISP_ISP2401, making the driver to auto-detect the
- register address differences between ISP2400 and ISP2401;
-
-6. Cleanup the driver code, removing the abstraction layers inside it;
-
-7. The atomisp doesn't rely at the usual i2c stuff to discover the
- sensors. Instead, it calls a function from atomisp_gmin_platform.c.
- There are some hacks added there for it to wait for sensors to be
- probed (with a timeout of 2 seconds or so). This should be converted
- to the usual way, using V4L2 async subdev framework to wait for
- cameras to be probed;
-
-8. Switch to standard V4L2 sub-device API for sensor and lens. In
- particular, the user space API needs to support V4L2 controls as
- defined in the V4L2 spec and references to atomisp must be removed from
- these drivers.
-
-9. Use LED flash API for flash LED drivers such as LM3554 (which already
- has a LED class driver).
-
-10. Migrate the sensor drivers out of staging or re-using existing
- drivers;
-
-11. Switch the driver to use pm_runtime stuff. Right now, it probes the
- existing PMIC code and sensors call it directly.
-
-12. There's a problem on sensor drivers: when trying to set a video
- format, the atomisp main driver calls the sensor drivers with the
- sensor turned off. This causes them to fail.
-
- This was fixed at atomisp-ov2880, which has a hack inside it
- to turn it on when VIDIOC_S_FMT is called, but this has to be
- cheked on other drivers as well.
-
- The right fix seems to power on the sensor when a video device is
- opened (or at the first VIDIOC_ ioctl - except for VIDIOC_QUERYCAP),
- powering it down at close() syscall.
-
- Such kind of control would need to be done inside the atomisp driver,
- not at the sensors code.
-
-13. There are several issues related to memory management, that can
- cause crashes and/or memory leaks. The atomisp splits the memory
- management on three separate regions:
-
- - dynamic pool;
- - reserved pool;
- - generic pool
-
- The code implementing it is at:
-
- drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/hmm/
+1. Items which MUST be fixed before the driver can be moved out of staging:
- It also has a separate code for managing DMA buffers at:
+* The atomisp ov2680 and ov5693 sensor drivers bind to the same hw-ids as
+ the standard ov2680 and ov5693 drivers under drivers/media/i2c, which
+ conflicts. Drop the atomisp private ov2680 and ov5693 drivers:
+ * Port various ov2680 improvements from atomisp_ov2680.c to regular ov2680.c
+ and switch to regular ov2680 driver
+ * Make atomisp work with the regular ov5693 driver and drop atomisp_ov5693
- drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/mmu/
+* Fix atomisp causing the whole machine to hang in its probe() error-exit
+ path taken in the firmware missing case
- The code there is really dirty, ugly and probably wrong. I fixed
- one bug there already, but the best would be to just trash it and use
- something else. Maybe the code from the newer intel driver could
- serve as a model:
+* Remove/disable private IOCTLs
- drivers/staging/media/ipu3/ipu3-mmu.c
+* Remove/disable custom v4l2-ctrls
- But converting it to use something like that is painful and may
- cause some breakages.
+* Remove custom sysfs files created by atomisp_drvfs.c
-14. The file structure needs to get tidied up to resemble a normal Linux
- driver.
+* Remove abuse of priv field in various v4l2 userspace API structs
-15. Lots of the midlayer glue. Unused code and abstraction needs removing.
+* Without a 3A library the capture behaviour is not very good. To take a good
+ picture, the exposure/gain needs to be tuned using v4l2-ctl on the sensor
+ subdev. To fix this, support for the atomisp needs to be added to libcamera.
-16. The AtomISP driver includes some special IOCTLS (ATOMISP_IOC_XXXX_XXXX)
- and controls that require some cleanup. Some of those code may have
- been removed during the cleanups. They could be needed in order to
- properly support 3A algorithms.
+ This MUST be done before moving the driver out of staging so that we can
+ still make changes to e.g. the mediactl topology if necessary for
+ libcamera integration. Since this would be a userspace API break, this
+ means that at least proof-of-concept libcamera integration needs to be
+ ready before moving the driver out of staging.
- Such IOCTL interface needs more documentation. The better would
- be to use something close to the interface used by the IPU3 IMGU driver.
-17. The ISP code has some dependencies of the exact FW version.
- The version defined in pci/sh_css_firmware.c:
+2. Items which SHOULD also be fixed eventually:
- BYT (isp2400): "irci_stable_candrpv_0415_20150521_0458"
+* Remove VIDEO_ATOMISP_ISP2401, making the driver to auto-detect the
+ register address differences between ISP2400 and ISP2401
- CHT (isp2401): "irci_ecr - master_20150911_0724"
+* The driver is intended to drive the PCI exposed versions of the device.
+ It will not detect those devices enumerated via ACPI as a field of the
+ i915 GPU driver (only a problem on BYT).
- Those versions don't seem to be available anymore. On the tests we've
- done so far, this version also seems to work for CHT:
+ There are some patches adding i915 GPU support floating at the Yocto's
+ Aero repository (so far, untested upstream).
- "irci_stable_candrpv_0415_20150521_0458"
+* Ensure that the driver will pass v4l2-compliance tests
- Which can be obtainable from Yocto Atom ISP respository.
+* Fix not all v4l2 apps working, e.g. cheese does not work
- but this was not thoroughly tested.
+* Get manufacturer's authorization to redistribute the binaries for
+ the firmware files
- At some point we may need to round up a few driver versions and see if
- there are any specific things that can be done to fold in support for
- multiple firmware versions.
+* The atomisp code still has a lot of cruft which needs cleaning up
-18. Switch from videobuf1 to videobuf2. Videobuf1 is being removed!
+Testing
+=======
-19. Correct Coding Style. Please refrain sending coding style patches
- for this driver until the other work is done, as there will be a lot
- of code churn until this driver becomes functional again.
+Since libcamera support is not available yet, the easiest way to test for
+now is using v4l2-ctl to select the input and gstreamer for streaming.
-20. Remove the logic which sets up pipelines inside it, moving it to
- libcamera and implement MC support.
+To select the input run:
+v4l2-ctl -i <input>
-Limitations
-===========
+Where <input> is 0 (front cam) or 1 (back cam).
-1. To test the patches, you also need the ISP firmware
+The simplest gstreamer pipeline for testing running the sensor
+at its max resolution is:
- for BYT: /lib/firmware/shisp_2400b0_v21.bin
- for CHT: /lib/firmware/shisp_2401a0_v21.bin
+gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src ! videoconvert ! xvimagesink sync=false
- The firmware files will usually be found in /etc/firmware on an Android
- device but can also be extracted from the upgrade kit if you've managed
- to lose them somehow.
+To select e.g 640x480 as resolution use:
-2. Without a 3A library the capture behaviour is not very good. To take a good
- picture, you need tune ISP parameters by IOCTL functions or use a 3A library
- such as libxcam.
+gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src ! video/x-raw,format=YV12,width=640,height=480 ! \
+ videoconvert ! xvimagesink sync=false
-3. The driver is intended to drive the PCI exposed versions of the device.
- It will not detect those devices enumerated via ACPI as a field of the
- i915 GPU driver.
+And to show fps use:
- There are some patches adding i915 GPU support floating at the Yocto's
- Aero repository (so far, untested upstream).
+gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src ! video/x-raw,format=YV12,width=640,height=480 ! \
+ videoconvert ! fpsdisplaysink video-sink=xvimagesink sync=false
-4. The driver supports only v2 of the IPU/Camera. It will not work with the
- versions of the hardware in other SoCs.
+Often the image will be over / under exposed. This can be fixed by using
+v4l2-ctl on the sensor subdev to tweak the exposure ctrl; or by using a GUI
+app for v4l2-controls which also supports subdev such as the Fedora patched
+gtk-v4l tool.