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5 OMAP 3 Image Signal Processor (ISP) driver
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8 Copyright |copy| 2010 Nokia Corporation
10 Copyright |copy| 2009 Texas Instruments, Inc.
12 Contacts: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
13 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>, David Cohen <dacohen@gmail.com>
19 This file documents the Texas Instruments OMAP 3 Image Signal Processor (ISP)
20 driver located under drivers/media/platform/omap3isp. The original driver was
21 written by Texas Instruments but since that it has been rewritten (twice) at
24 The driver has been successfully used on the following versions of OMAP 3:
30 The driver implements V4L2, Media controller and v4l2_subdev interfaces.
31 Sensor, lens and flash drivers using the v4l2_subdev interface in the kernel
38 The OMAP 3 ISP is split into V4L2 subdevs, each of the blocks inside the ISP
39 having one subdev to represent it. Each of the subdevs provide a V4L2 subdev
40 interface to userspace.
51 Each possible link in the ISP is modelled by a link in the Media controller
52 interface. For an example program see [#f2]_.
55 Controlling the OMAP 3 ISP
56 --------------------------
58 In general, the settings given to the OMAP 3 ISP take effect at the beginning
59 of the following frame. This is done when the module becomes idle during the
60 vertical blanking period on the sensor. In memory-to-memory operation the pipe
61 is run one frame at a time. Applying the settings is done between the frames.
63 All the blocks in the ISP, excluding the CSI-2 and possibly the CCP2 receiver,
64 insist on receiving complete frames. Sensors must thus never send the ISP
67 Autoidle does have issues with some ISP blocks on the 3430, at least.
68 Autoidle is only enabled on 3630 when the omap3isp module parameter autoidle
75 The OMAP 3 ISP driver does support the V4L2 event interface on CCDC and
76 statistics (AEWB, AF and histogram) subdevs.
78 The CCDC subdev produces V4L2_EVENT_FRAME_SYNC type event on HS_VS
79 interrupt which is used to signal frame start. Earlier version of this
80 driver used V4L2_EVENT_OMAP3ISP_HS_VS for this purpose. The event is
81 triggered exactly when the reception of the first line of the frame starts
82 in the CCDC module. The event can be subscribed on the CCDC subdev.
84 (When using parallel interface one must pay account to correct configuration
85 of the VS signal polarity. This is automatically correct when using the serial
88 Each of the statistics subdevs is able to produce events. An event is
89 generated whenever a statistics buffer can be dequeued by a user space
90 application using the VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_STAT_REQ IOCTL. The events available
93 - V4L2_EVENT_OMAP3ISP_AEWB
94 - V4L2_EVENT_OMAP3ISP_AF
95 - V4L2_EVENT_OMAP3ISP_HIST
97 The type of the event data is struct omap3isp_stat_event_status for these
98 ioctls. If there is an error calculating the statistics, there will be an
99 event as usual, but no related statistics buffer. In this case
100 omap3isp_stat_event_status.buf_err is set to non-zero.
106 The OMAP 3 ISP driver supports standard V4L2 IOCTLs and controls where
107 possible and practical. Much of the functions provided by the ISP, however,
108 does not fall under the standard IOCTLs --- gamma tables and configuration of
109 statistics collection are examples of such.
111 In general, there is a private ioctl for configuring each of the blocks
112 containing hardware-dependent functions.
114 The following private IOCTLs are supported:
116 - VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_CCDC_CFG
117 - VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_PRV_CFG
118 - VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_AEWB_CFG
119 - VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_HIST_CFG
120 - VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_AF_CFG
121 - VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_STAT_REQ
122 - VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_STAT_EN
124 The parameter structures used by these ioctls are described in
125 include/linux/omap3isp.h. The detailed functions of the ISP itself related to
126 a given ISP block is described in the Technical Reference Manuals (TRMs) ---
127 see the end of the document for those.
129 While it is possible to use the ISP driver without any use of these private
130 IOCTLs it is not possible to obtain optimal image quality this way. The AEWB,
131 AF and histogram modules cannot be used without configuring them using the
132 appropriate private IOCTLs.
135 CCDC and preview block IOCTLs
136 -----------------------------
138 The VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_CCDC_CFG and VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_PRV_CFG IOCTLs are used to
139 configure, enable and disable functions in the CCDC and preview blocks,
140 respectively. Both IOCTLs control several functions in the blocks they
141 control. VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_CCDC_CFG IOCTL accepts a pointer to struct
142 omap3isp_ccdc_update_config as its argument. Similarly VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_PRV_CFG
143 accepts a pointer to struct omap3isp_prev_update_config. The definition of
144 both structures is available in [#f1]_.
146 The update field in the structures tells whether to update the configuration
147 for the specific function and the flag tells whether to enable or disable the
150 The update and flag bit masks accept the following values. Each separate
151 functions in the CCDC and preview blocks is associated with a flag (either
152 disable or enable; part of the flag field in the structure) and a pointer to
153 configuration data for the function.
155 Valid values for the update and flag fields are listed here for
156 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_CCDC_CFG. Values may be or'ed to configure more than one
157 function in the same IOCTL call.
161 - OMAP3ISP_CCDC_BLCLAMP
162 - OMAP3ISP_CCDC_BCOMP
165 - OMAP3ISP_CCDC_CONFIG_LSC
166 - OMAP3ISP_CCDC_TBL_LSC
168 The corresponding values for the VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_PRV_CFG are here:
170 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_LUMAENH
171 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_INVALAW
172 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_HRZ_MED
174 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_CHROMA_SUPP
176 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_BLKADJ
177 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_RGB2RGB
178 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_COLOR_CONV
179 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_YC_LIMIT
180 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_DEFECT_COR
181 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_GAMMABYPASS
182 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_DRK_FRM_CAPTURE
183 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_DRK_FRM_SUBTRACT
184 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_LENS_SHADING
186 - OMAP3ISP_PREV_GAMMA
188 The associated configuration pointer for the function may not be NULL when
189 enabling the function. When disabling a function the configuration pointer is
193 Statistic blocks IOCTLs
194 -----------------------
196 The statistics subdevs do offer more dynamic configuration options than the
197 other subdevs. They can be enabled, disable and reconfigured when the pipeline
198 is in streaming state.
200 The statistics blocks always get the input image data from the CCDC (as the
201 histogram memory read isn't implemented). The statistics are dequeueable by
202 the user from the statistics subdev nodes using private IOCTLs.
204 The private IOCTLs offered by the AEWB, AF and histogram subdevs are heavily
205 reflected by the register level interface offered by the ISP hardware. There
206 are aspects that are purely related to the driver implementation and these are
209 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_STAT_EN
210 -----------------------
212 This private IOCTL enables/disables a statistic module. If this request is
213 done before streaming, it will take effect as soon as the pipeline starts to
214 stream. If the pipeline is already streaming, it will take effect as soon as
215 the CCDC becomes idle.
217 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_AEWB_CFG, VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_HIST_CFG and VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_AF_CFG
218 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
220 Those IOCTLs are used to configure the modules. They require user applications
221 to have an in-depth knowledge of the hardware. Most of the fields explanation
222 can be found on OMAP's TRMs. The two following fields common to all the above
223 configure private IOCTLs require explanation for better understanding as they
224 are not part of the TRM.
226 omap3isp_[h3a_af/h3a_aewb/hist]\_config.buf_size:
228 The modules handle their buffers internally. The necessary buffer size for the
229 module's data output depends on the requested configuration. Although the
230 driver supports reconfiguration while streaming, it does not support a
231 reconfiguration which requires bigger buffer size than what is already
232 internally allocated if the module is enabled. It will return -EBUSY on this
233 case. In order to avoid such condition, either disable/reconfigure/enable the
234 module or request the necessary buffer size during the first configuration
235 while the module is disabled.
237 The internal buffer size allocation considers the requested configuration's
238 minimum buffer size and the value set on buf_size field. If buf_size field is
239 out of [minimum, maximum] buffer size range, it's clamped to fit in there.
240 The driver then selects the biggest value. The corrected buf_size value is
241 written back to user application.
243 omap3isp_[h3a_af/h3a_aewb/hist]\_config.config_counter:
245 As the configuration doesn't take effect synchronously to the request, the
246 driver must provide a way to track this information to provide more accurate
247 data. After a configuration is requested, the config_counter returned to user
248 space application will be an unique value associated to that request. When
249 user application receives an event for buffer availability or when a new
250 buffer is requested, this config_counter is used to match a buffer data and a
253 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_STAT_REQ
254 ------------------------
256 Send to user space the oldest data available in the internal buffer queue and
257 discards such buffer afterwards. The field omap3isp_stat_data.frame_number
258 matches with the video buffer's field_count.
261 Technical reference manuals (TRMs) and other documentation
262 ----------------------------------------------------------
265 <URL:http://focus.ti.com/pdfs/wtbu/OMAP34xx_ES3.1.x_PUBLIC_TRM_vZM.zip>
266 Referenced 2011-03-05.
269 <URL:http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/spruf98o> Referenced 2011-03-05.
272 <URL:http://focus.ti.com/pdfs/wtbu/OMAP36xx_ES1.x_PUBLIC_TRM_vQ.zip>
273 Referenced 2011-03-05.
276 <URL:http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/sprugn4h> Referenced 2011-03-06.
282 .. [#f1] include/linux/omap3isp.h
284 .. [#f2] http://git.ideasonboard.org/?p=media-ctl.git;a=summary