1 .. include:: <isonum.txt>
3 The Samsung S5P/EXYNOS4 FIMC driver
4 ===================================
6 Copyright |copy| 2012 - 2013 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
8 The FIMC (Fully Interactive Mobile Camera) device available in Samsung
9 SoC Application Processors is an integrated camera host interface, color
10 space converter, image resizer and rotator. It's also capable of capturing
11 data from LCD controller (FIMD) through the SoC internal writeback data
12 path. There are multiple FIMC instances in the SoCs (up to 4), having
13 slightly different capabilities, like pixel alignment constraints, rotator
14 availability, LCD writeback support, etc. The driver is located at
15 drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is directory.
20 S5PC100 (mem-to-mem only), S5PV210, EXYNOS4210
25 - camera parallel interface capture (ITU-R.BT601/565);
26 - camera serial interface capture (MIPI-CSI2);
27 - memory-to-memory processing (color space conversion, scaling, mirror
29 - dynamic pipeline re-configuration at runtime (re-attachment of any FIMC
30 instance to any parallel video input or any MIPI-CSI front-end);
31 - runtime PM and system wide suspend/resume
33 Not currently supported
34 -----------------------
37 - per frame clock gating (mem-to-mem)
43 drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/media-dev.[ch]
45 - camera capture video device driver
46 drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-capture.c
48 - MIPI-CSI2 receiver subdev
49 drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/mipi-csis.[ch]
51 - video post-processor (mem-to-mem)
52 drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-core.c
55 drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-core.h
56 drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-reg.h
57 drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/regs-fimc.h
62 Media device interface
63 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
65 The driver supports Media Controller API as defined at :ref:`media_controller`.
66 The media device driver name is "SAMSUNG S5P FIMC".
68 The purpose of this interface is to allow changing assignment of FIMC instances
69 to the SoC peripheral camera input at runtime and optionally to control internal
70 connections of the MIPI-CSIS device(s) to the FIMC entities.
72 The media device interface allows to configure the SoC for capturing image
73 data from the sensor through more than one FIMC instance (e.g. for simultaneous
74 viewfinder and still capture setup).
75 Reconfiguration is done by enabling/disabling media links created by the driver
76 during initialization. The internal device topology can be easily discovered
77 through media entity and links enumeration.
79 Memory-to-memory video node
80 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
82 V4L2 memory-to-memory interface at /dev/video? device node. This is standalone
83 video device, it has no media pads. However please note the mem-to-mem and
84 capture video node operation on same FIMC instance is not allowed. The driver
85 detects such cases but the applications should prevent them to avoid an
91 The driver supports V4L2 Video Capture Interface as defined at
94 At the capture and mem-to-mem video nodes only the multi-planar API is
95 supported. For more details see: :ref:`planar-apis`.
97 Camera capture subdevs
98 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
100 Each FIMC instance exports a sub-device node (/dev/v4l-subdev?), a sub-device
101 node is also created per each available and enabled at the platform level
102 MIPI-CSI receiver device (currently up to two).
107 In order to enable more precise camera pipeline control through the sub-device
108 API the driver creates a sysfs entry associated with "s5p-fimc-md" platform
109 device. The entry path is: /sys/platform/devices/s5p-fimc-md/subdev_conf_mode.
111 In typical use case there could be a following capture pipeline configuration:
112 sensor subdev -> mipi-csi subdev -> fimc subdev -> video node
114 When we configure these devices through sub-device API at user space, the
115 configuration flow must be from left to right, and the video node is
116 configured as last one.
117 When we don't use sub-device user space API the whole configuration of all
118 devices belonging to the pipeline is done at the video node driver.
119 The sysfs entry allows to instruct the capture node driver not to configure
120 the sub-devices (format, crop), to avoid resetting the subdevs' configuration
121 when the last configuration steps at the video node is performed.
123 For full sub-device control support (subdevs configured at user space before
128 # echo "sub-dev" > /sys/platform/devices/s5p-fimc-md/subdev_conf_mode
130 For V4L2 video node control only (subdevs configured internally by the host
135 # echo "vid-dev" > /sys/platform/devices/s5p-fimc-md/subdev_conf_mode
137 This is a default option.
139 5. Device mapping to video and subdev device nodes
140 --------------------------------------------------
142 There are associated two video device nodes with each device instance in
143 hardware - video capture and mem-to-mem and additionally a subdev node for
144 more precise FIMC capture subsystem control. In addition a separate v4l2
145 sub-device node is created per each MIPI-CSIS device.
147 How to find out which /dev/video? or /dev/v4l-subdev? is assigned to which
150 You can either grep through the kernel log to find relevant information, i.e.
154 # dmesg | grep -i fimc
156 (note that udev, if present, might still have rearranged the video nodes),
158 or retrieve the information from /dev/media? with help of the media-ctl tool:
167 If the driver is built as a loadable kernel module (CONFIG_VIDEO_SAMSUNG_S5P_FIMC=m)
168 two modules are created (in addition to the core v4l2 modules): s5p-fimc.ko and
169 optional s5p-csis.ko (MIPI-CSI receiver subdev).