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3 The VPBE V4L2 driver design
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6 Functional partitioning
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9 Consists of the following:
11 1. V4L2 display driver
13 Implements creation of video2 and video3 device nodes and
14 provides v4l2 device interface to manage VID0 and VID1 layers.
18 Loads up VENC, OSD and external encoders such as ths8200. It provides
19 a set of API calls to V4L2 drivers to set the output/standards
20 in the VENC or external sub devices. It also provides
21 a device object to access the services from OSD subdevice
22 using sub device ops. The connection of external encoders to VENC LCD
23 controller port is done at init time based on default output and standard
24 selection or at run time when application change the output through
27 When connected to an external encoder, vpbe controller is also responsible
28 for setting up the interface between VENC and external encoders based on
29 board specific settings (specified in board-xxx-evm.c). This allows
30 interfacing external encoders such as ths8200. The setup_if_config()
31 is implemented for this as well as configure_venc() (part of the next patch)
32 API to set timings in VENC for a specific display resolution. As of this
33 patch series, the interconnection and enabling and setting of the external
34 encoders is not present, and would be a part of the next patch series.
36 3. VENC subdevice module
38 Responsible for setting outputs provided through internal DACs and also
39 setting timings at LCD controller port when external encoders are connected
40 at the port or LCD panel timings required. When external encoder/LCD panel
41 is connected, the timings for a specific standard/preset is retrieved from
42 the board specific table and the values are used to set the timings in
43 venc using non-standard timing mode.
45 Support LCD Panel displays using the VENC. For example to support a Logic
46 PD display, it requires setting up the LCD controller port with a set of
47 timings for the resolution supported and setting the dot clock. So we could
48 add the available outputs as a board specific entry (i.e add the "LogicPD"
49 output name to board-xxx-evm.c). A table of timings for various LCDs
50 supported can be maintained in the board specific setup file to support
51 various LCD displays.As of this patch a basic driver is present, and this
52 support for external encoders and displays forms a part of the next
57 OSD module implements all OSD layer management and hardware specific
58 features. The VPBE module interacts with the OSD for enabling and
59 disabling appropriate features of the OSD.
64 A fully functional working version of the V4L2 driver is available. This
65 driver has been tested with NTSC and PAL standards and buffer streaming.