of connecting to a variety of systems and interfaces, typically uses i2c for
control and configuration, and a parallel or a serial bus for data.
- camera host - an interface, to which a camera is connected. Typically a
- specialised interface, present on many SoCs, e.g., PXA27x and PXA3xx, SuperH,
+ specialised interface, present on many SoCs, e.g. PXA27x and PXA3xx, SuperH,
AVR32, i.MX27, i.MX31.
- camera host bus - a connection between a camera host and a camera. Can be
- parallel or serial, consists of data and control lines, e.g., clock, vertical
+ parallel or serial, consists of data and control lines, e.g. clock, vertical
and horizontal synchronization signals.
Purpose of the soc-camera subsystem
-----------------------------------
-The soc-camera subsystem provides a unified API between camera host drivers and
-camera sensor drivers. It implements a V4L2 interface to the user, currently
-only the mmap method is supported.
+The soc-camera subsystem initially provided a unified API between camera host
+drivers and camera sensor drivers. Later the soc-camera sensor API has been
+replaced with the V4L2 standard subdev API. This also made camera driver re-use
+with non-soc-camera hosts possible. The camera host API to the soc-camera core
+has been preserved.
-This subsystem has been written to connect drivers for System-on-Chip (SoC)
-video capture interfaces with drivers for CMOS camera sensor chips to enable
-the reuse of sensor drivers with various hosts. The subsystem has been designed
-to support multiple camera host interfaces and multiple cameras per interface,
-although most applications have only one camera sensor.
+Soc-camera implements a V4L2 interface to the user, currently only the "mmap"
+method is supported by host drivers. However, the soc-camera core also provides
+support for the "read" method.
+
+The subsystem has been designed to support multiple camera host interfaces and
+multiple cameras per interface, although most applications have only one camera
+sensor.
Existing drivers
----------------
-As of 2.6.27-rc4 there are two host drivers in the mainline: pxa_camera.c for
-PXA27x SoCs and sh_mobile_ceu_camera.c for SuperH SoCs, and four sensor drivers:
-mt9m001.c, mt9m111.c, mt9v022.c and a generic soc_camera_platform.c driver. This
-list is not supposed to be updated, look for more examples in your tree.
+As of 3.7 there are seven host drivers in the mainline: atmel-isi.c,
+mx1_camera.c (broken, scheduled for removal), mx2_camera.c, mx3_camera.c,
+omap1_camera.c, pxa_camera.c, sh_mobile_ceu_camera.c, and multiple sensor
+drivers under drivers/media/i2c/soc_camera/.
Camera host API
---------------
function. The host object can be initialized as follows:
-static struct soc_camera_host pxa_soc_camera_host = {
- .drv_name = PXA_CAM_DRV_NAME,
- .ops = &pxa_soc_camera_host_ops,
-};
+ struct soc_camera_host *ici;
+ ici->drv_name = DRV_NAME;
+ ici->ops = &camera_host_ops;
+ ici->priv = pcdev;
+ ici->v4l2_dev.dev = &pdev->dev;
+ ici->nr = pdev->id;
All camera host methods are passed in a struct soc_camera_host_ops:
-static struct soc_camera_host_ops pxa_soc_camera_host_ops = {
+static struct soc_camera_host_ops camera_host_ops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
- .add = pxa_camera_add_device,
- .remove = pxa_camera_remove_device,
- .suspend = pxa_camera_suspend,
- .resume = pxa_camera_resume,
- .set_fmt_cap = pxa_camera_set_fmt_cap,
- .try_fmt_cap = pxa_camera_try_fmt_cap,
- .init_videobuf = pxa_camera_init_videobuf,
- .reqbufs = pxa_camera_reqbufs,
- .poll = pxa_camera_poll,
- .querycap = pxa_camera_querycap,
- .try_bus_param = pxa_camera_try_bus_param,
- .set_bus_param = pxa_camera_set_bus_param,
+ .add = camera_add_device,
+ .remove = camera_remove_device,
+ .set_fmt = camera_set_fmt_cap,
+ .try_fmt = camera_try_fmt_cap,
+ .init_videobuf2 = camera_init_videobuf2,
+ .poll = camera_poll,
+ .querycap = camera_querycap,
+ .set_bus_param = camera_set_bus_param,
+ /* The rest of host operations are optional */
};
.add and .remove methods are called when a sensor is attached to or detached
-from the host, apart from performing host-internal tasks they shall also call
-sensor driver's .init and .release methods respectively. .suspend and .resume
-methods implement host's power-management functionality and its their
-responsibility to call respective sensor's methods. .try_bus_param and
-.set_bus_param are used to negotiate physical connection parameters between the
-host and the sensor. .init_videobuf is called by soc-camera core when a
-video-device is opened, further video-buffer management is implemented completely
-by the specific camera host driver. The rest of the methods are called from
+from the host. .set_bus_param is used to configure physical connection
+parameters between the host and the sensor. .init_videobuf2 is called by
+soc-camera core when a video-device is opened, the host driver would typically
+call vb2_queue_init() in this method. Further video-buffer management is
+implemented completely by the specific camera host driver. If the host driver
+supports non-standard pixel format conversion, it should implement a
+.get_formats and, possibly, a .put_formats operations. See below for more
+details about format conversion. The rest of the methods are called from
respective V4L2 operations.
Camera API
Sensor drivers can use struct soc_camera_link, typically provided by the
platform, and used to specify to which camera host bus the sensor is connected,
-and arbitrarily provide platform .power and .reset methods for the camera.
-soc_camera_device_register() and soc_camera_device_unregister() functions are
-used to add a sensor driver to or remove one from the system. The registration
-function takes a pointer to struct soc_camera_device as the only parameter.
-This struct can be initialized as follows:
-
- /* link to driver operations */
- icd->ops = &mt9m001_ops;
- /* link to the underlying physical (e.g., i2c) device */
- icd->control = &client->dev;
- /* window geometry */
- icd->x_min = 20;
- icd->y_min = 12;
- icd->x_current = 20;
- icd->y_current = 12;
- icd->width_min = 48;
- icd->width_max = 1280;
- icd->height_min = 32;
- icd->height_max = 1024;
- icd->y_skip_top = 1;
- /* camera bus ID, typically obtained from platform data */
- icd->iface = icl->bus_id;
-
-struct soc_camera_ops provides .probe and .remove methods, which are called by
-the soc-camera core, when a camera is matched against or removed from a camera
-host bus, .init, .release, .suspend, and .resume are called from the camera host
-driver as discussed above. Other members of this struct provide respective V4L2
-functionality.
-
-struct soc_camera_device also links to an array of struct soc_camera_data_format,
-listing pixel formats, supported by the camera.
+and optionally provide platform .power and .reset methods for the camera. This
+struct is provided to the camera driver via the I2C client device platform data
+and can be obtained, using the soc_camera_i2c_to_link() macro. Care should be
+taken, when using soc_camera_vdev_to_subdev() and when accessing struct
+soc_camera_device, using v4l2_get_subdev_hostdata(): both only work, when
+running on an soc-camera host. The actual camera driver operation is implemented
+using the V4L2 subdev API. Additionally soc-camera camera drivers can use
+auxiliary soc-camera helper functions like soc_camera_power_on() and
+soc_camera_power_off(), which switch regulators, provided by the platform and call
+board-specific power switching methods. soc_camera_apply_board_flags() takes
+camera bus configuration capability flags and applies any board transformations,
+e.g. signal polarity inversion. soc_mbus_get_fmtdesc() can be used to obtain a
+pixel format descriptor, corresponding to a certain media-bus pixel format code.
+soc_camera_limit_side() can be used to restrict beginning and length of a frame
+side, based on camera capabilities.
VIDIOC_S_CROP and VIDIOC_S_FMT behaviour
----------------------------------------
User window geometry is kept in .user_width and .user_height fields in struct
soc_camera_device and used by the soc-camera core and host drivers. The core
updates these fields upon successful completion of a .s_fmt() call, but if these
-fields change elsewhere, e.g., during .s_crop() processing, the host driver is
+fields change elsewhere, e.g. during .s_crop() processing, the host driver is
responsible for updating them.
+Format conversion
+-----------------
+
+V4L2 distinguishes between pixel formats, as they are stored in memory, and as
+they are transferred over a media bus. Soc-camera provides support to
+conveniently manage these formats. A table of standard transformations is
+maintained by soc-camera core, which describes, what FOURCC pixel format will
+be obtained, if a media-bus pixel format is stored in memory according to
+certain rules. E.g. if V4L2_MBUS_FMT_YUYV8_2X8 data is sampled with 8 bits per
+sample and stored in memory in the little-endian order with no gaps between
+bytes, data in memory will represent the V4L2_PIX_FMT_YUYV FOURCC format. These
+standard transformations will be used by soc-camera or by camera host drivers to
+configure camera drivers to produce the FOURCC format, requested by the user,
+using the VIDIOC_S_FMT ioctl(). Apart from those standard format conversions,
+host drivers can also provide their own conversion rules by implementing a
+.get_formats and, if required, a .put_formats methods.
+
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Author: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
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