1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 .. include:: <isonum.txt>
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6 Rockchip Image Signal Processor (rkisp1)
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12 This file documents the driver for the Rockchip ISP1 that is part of RK3288
13 and RK3399 SoCs. The driver is located under drivers/staging/media/rkisp1
14 and uses the Media-Controller API.
18 .. _rkisp1_topology_graph:
20 .. kernel-figure:: rkisp1.dot
21 :alt: Diagram of the default media pipeline topology
25 The driver has 4 video devices:
27 - rkisp1_mainpath: capture device for retrieving images, usually in higher
29 - rkisp1_selfpath: capture device for retrieving images.
30 - rkisp1_stats: a metadata capture device that sends statistics.
31 - rkisp1_params: a metadata output device that receives parameters
32 configurations from userspace.
34 The driver has 3 subdevices:
36 - rkisp1_resizer_mainpath: used to resize and downsample frames for the
37 mainpath capture device.
38 - rkisp1_resizer_selfpath: used to resize and downsample frames for the
39 selfpath capture device.
40 - rkisp1_isp: is connected to the sensor and is responsible for all the isp
44 rkisp1_mainpath, rkisp1_selfpath - Frames Capture Video Nodes
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46 Those are the `mainpath` and `selfpath` capture devices to capture frames.
47 Those entities are the DMA engines that write the frames to memory.
48 The selfpath video device can capture YUV/RGB formats. Its input is YUV encoded
49 stream and it is able to convert it to RGB. The selfpath is not able to
50 capture bayer formats.
51 The mainpath can capture both bayer and YUV formats but it is not able to
53 Both capture videos support
54 the ``V4L2_CAP_IO_MC`` :ref:`capability <device-capabilities>`.
57 rkisp1_resizer_mainpath, rkisp1_resizer_selfpath - Resizers Subdevices Nodes
58 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
59 Those are resizer entities for the mainpath and the selfpath. Those entities
60 can scale the frames up and down and also change the YUV sampling (for example
61 YUV4:2:2 -> YUV4:2:0). They also have cropping capability on the sink pad.
62 The resizers entities can only operate on YUV:4:2:2 format
63 (MEDIA_BUS_FMT_YUYV8_2X8).
64 The mainpath capture device supports capturing video in bayer formats. In that
65 case the resizer of the mainpath is set to 'bypass' mode - it just forward the
66 frame without operating on it.
68 rkisp1_isp - Image Signal Processing Subdevice Node
69 ---------------------------------------------------
70 This is the isp entity. It is connected to the sensor on sink pad 0 and
71 receives the frames using the CSI-2 protocol. It is responsible of configuring
72 the CSI-2 protocol. It has a cropping capability on sink pad 0 that is
73 connected to the sensor and on source pad 2 connected to the resizer entities.
74 Cropping on sink pad 0 defines the image region from the sensor.
75 Cropping on source pad 2 defines the region for the Image Stabilizer (IS).
79 rkisp1_stats - Statistics Video Node
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81 The statistics video node outputs the 3A (auto focus, auto exposure and auto
82 white balance) statistics, and also histogram statistics for the frames that
83 are being processed by the rkisp1 to userspace applications.
84 Using these data, applications can implement algorithms and re-parameterize
85 the driver through the rkisp_params node to improve image quality during a
87 The buffer format is defined by struct :c:type:`rkisp1_stat_buffer`, and
89 :ref:`V4L2_META_FMT_RK_ISP1_STAT_3A <v4l2-meta-fmt-rk-isp1-stat-3a>` as the
94 rkisp1_params - Parameters Video Node
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96 The rkisp1_params video node receives a set of parameters from userspace
97 to be applied to the hardware during a video stream, allowing userspace
98 to dynamically modify values such as black level, cross talk corrections
101 The buffer format is defined by struct :c:type:`rkisp1_params_cfg`, and
103 :ref:`V4L2_META_FMT_RK_ISP1_PARAMS <v4l2-meta-fmt-rk-isp1-params>` as the
107 Capturing Video Frames Example
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110 In the following example, the sensor connected to pad 0 of 'rkisp1_isp' is
113 The following commands can be used to capture video from the selfpath video
114 node with dimension 900x800 planar format YUV 4:2:2. It uses all cropping
115 capabilities possible, (see explanation right below)
120 "media-ctl" "-d" "platform:rkisp1" "-r"
121 "media-ctl" "-d" "platform:rkisp1" "-l" "'imx219 4-0010':0 -> 'rkisp1_isp':0 [1]"
122 "media-ctl" "-d" "platform:rkisp1" "-l" "'rkisp1_isp':2 -> 'rkisp1_resizer_selfpath':0 [1]"
123 "media-ctl" "-d" "platform:rkisp1" "-l" "'rkisp1_isp':2 -> 'rkisp1_resizer_mainpath':0 [0]"
125 # set format for imx219 4-0010:0
126 "media-ctl" "-d" "platform:rkisp1" "--set-v4l2" '"imx219 4-0010":0 [fmt:SRGGB10_1X10/1640x1232]'
128 # set format for rkisp1_isp pads:
129 "media-ctl" "-d" "platform:rkisp1" "--set-v4l2" '"rkisp1_isp":0 [fmt:SRGGB10_1X10/1640x1232 crop: (0,0)/1600x1200]'
130 "media-ctl" "-d" "platform:rkisp1" "--set-v4l2" '"rkisp1_isp":2 [fmt:YUYV8_2X8/1600x1200 crop: (0,0)/1500x1100]'
132 # set format for rkisp1_resizer_selfpath pads:
133 "media-ctl" "-d" "platform:rkisp1" "--set-v4l2" '"rkisp1_resizer_selfpath":0 [fmt:YUYV8_2X8/1500x1100 crop: (300,400)/1400x1000]'
134 "media-ctl" "-d" "platform:rkisp1" "--set-v4l2" '"rkisp1_resizer_selfpath":1 [fmt:YUYV8_2X8/900x800]'
136 # set format for rkisp1_selfpath:
137 "v4l2-ctl" "-z" "platform:rkisp1" "-d" "rkisp1_selfpath" "-v" "width=900,height=800,"
138 "v4l2-ctl" "-z" "platform:rkisp1" "-d" "rkisp1_selfpath" "-v" "pixelformat=422P"
141 v4l2-ctl "-z" "platform:rkisp1" "-d" "rkisp1_selfpath" "--stream-mmap" "--stream-count" "10"
144 In the above example the sensor is configured to bayer format:
145 `SRGGB10_1X10/1640x1232`. The rkisp1_isp:0 pad should be configured to the
146 same mbus format and dimensions as the sensor, otherwise streaming will fail
147 with 'EPIPE' error. So it is also configured to `SRGGB10_1X10/1640x1232`.
148 In addition, the rkisp1_isp:0 pad is configured to cropping `(0,0)/1600x1200`.
150 The cropping dimensions are automatically propagated to be the format of the
151 isp source pad `rkisp1_isp:2`. Another cropping operation is configured on
152 the isp source pad: `(0,0)/1500x1100`.
154 The resizer's sink pad `rkisp1_resizer_selfpath` should be configured to format
155 `YUYV8_2X8/1500x1100` in order to match the format on the other side of the
156 link. In addition a cropping `(300,400)/1400x1000` is configured on it.
158 The source pad of the resizer, `rkisp1_resizer_selfpath:1` is configured to
159 format `YUYV8_2X8/900x800`. That means that the resizer first crop a window
160 of `(300,400)/1400x100` from the received frame and then scales this window
161 to dimension `900x800`.
163 Note that the above example does not uses the stats-params control loop.
164 Therefore the capture frames will not go through the 3A algorithms and
165 probably won't have a good quality, and can even look dark and greenish.
167 Configuring Quantization
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170 The driver supports limited and full range quantization on YUV formats,
171 where limited is the default.
172 To switch between one or the other, userspace should use the Colorspace
173 Conversion API (CSC) for subdevices on source pad 2 of the
174 isp (`rkisp1_isp:2`). The quantization configured on this pad is the
175 quantization of the captured video frames on the mainpath and selfpath
177 Note that the resizer and capture entities will always report
178 ``V4L2_QUANTIZATION_DEFAULT`` even if the quantization is configured to full
179 range on `rkisp1_isp:2`. So in order to get the configured quantization,
180 application should get it from pad `rkisp1_isp:2`.