From: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
To: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
Yong Deng <yong.deng@magewell.com>,
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 1/2] dt-bindings: media: Add Allwinner V3s Camera Sensor Interface (CSI)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:56:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180928125601.6ye5tvrmh57amvh5@paasikivi.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGb2v65YpPRHb5YiGJhC8NX5F5i3+1rW5y6Dq5L+pNN3U_uLdQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Chen-Yu,
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 07:10:58PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:23 PM Sakari Ailus
> <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Laurent,
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 12:45:12PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > Hi Sakari,
> > >
> > > On Friday, 28 September 2018 12:38:33 EEST Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 04:40:04PM +0800, Yong Deng wrote:
> > > > > Add binding documentation for Allwinner V3s CSI.
> > > > >
> > > > > Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
> > > > > Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
> > > >
> > > > I know... but I have a few more comments.
> > > >
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Yong Deng <yong.deng@magewell.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >
> > > > > .../devicetree/bindings/media/sun6i-csi.txt | 59 +++++++++++++++++
> > > > > 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+)
> > > > > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/sun6i-csi.txt
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/sun6i-csi.txt
> > > > > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/sun6i-csi.txt new file mode
> > > > > 100644
> > > > > index 000000000000..2ff47a9507a6
> > > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/sun6i-csi.txt
> > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
> > > > > +Allwinner V3s Camera Sensor Interface
> > > > > +-------------------------------------
> > > > > +
> > > > > +Allwinner V3s SoC features two CSI module. CSI0 is used for MIPI CSI-2
> > > > > +interface and CSI1 is used for parallel interface.
> > > > > +
> > > > > +Required properties:
> > > > > + - compatible: value must be "allwinner,sun8i-v3s-csi"
> > > > > + - reg: base address and size of the memory-mapped region.
> > > > > + - interrupts: interrupt associated to this IP
> > > > > + - clocks: phandles to the clocks feeding the CSI
> > > > > + * bus: the CSI interface clock
> > > > > + * mod: the CSI module clock
> > > > > + * ram: the CSI DRAM clock
> > > > > + - clock-names: the clock names mentioned above
> > > > > + - resets: phandles to the reset line driving the CSI
> > > > > +
> > > > > +Each CSI node should contain one 'port' child node with one child
> > > > > 'endpoint' +node, according to the bindings defined in
> > > > > +Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/video-interfaces.txt. As
> > > > > mentioned
> > > > > +above, the endpoint's bus type should be MIPI CSI-2 for CSI0 and parallel
> > > > > or +Bt656 for CSI1.
> > > >
> > > > Which port represents CSI0 and which one is CSI1? That needs to be
> > > > documented.
> > >
> > > There are two CSI devices, named CSI0 and CSI1, with one port each. The CSI0
> > > device supports CSI-2 only, and the CSI1 device parallel (BT.601 or BT.656)
> > > only.
> > >
> > > > > +
> > > > > +Endpoint node properties for CSI1
> > > >
> > > > How about CSI0? I'd expect at least data-lanes, and clock-lanes as well if
> > > > the hardware supports lane mapping.
> > >
> > > I enquired about that too. As far as I understand, CSI0 isn't supported yet in
> > > the driver due to lack of documentation and lack of open-source vendor-
> > > provided source code. While DT bindings are not tied to driver
> > > implementations, it's not the best idea to design DT bindings without at least
> > > one working implementation to test them. I thus proposed just listing CSI0 as
> > > being unsupported for now.
> >
> > Ack.
> >
> > We should still define which receiver corresponds to a given port. Probably
> > 1 for CSI1 would make sense, in order to avoid changing the order the
> > hardware already uses. 0 doesn't need to be documented no IMO.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> AFAICT it would be a completely seperate node, since they have different address
> spaces, clocks and reset controls. So there's no possibility of confusion.
>
> According to Yong, CSI0 is tied internally to some unknown MIPI CSI2-receiver,
> which is the undocumented part. CSI1 has its parallel data pins exposed to the
> outside.
Thanks for clearing up the confusion. If these are truly different kinds of
devices, then don't they also deserve different compatible strings? And
possibly also different DT binding documentation in a separate file.
--
Regards,
Sakari Ailus
sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-28 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-26 8:40 [PATCH v11 1/2] dt-bindings: media: Add Allwinner V3s Camera Sensor Interface (CSI) Yong Deng
2018-09-26 10:19 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-26 10:35 ` maxime.ripard
2018-09-26 10:38 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-26 10:40 ` Maxime Ripard
2018-09-27 0:59 ` Yong
2018-09-28 9:38 ` Sakari Ailus
2018-09-28 9:45 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-28 10:23 ` Sakari Ailus
2018-09-28 11:10 ` Chen-Yu Tsai
2018-09-28 12:56 ` Sakari Ailus [this message]
2018-09-28 13:36 ` Maxime Ripard
2018-09-28 13:42 ` Sakari Ailus
2018-09-28 13:42 ` Chen-Yu Tsai
2018-09-28 14:47 ` Sakari Ailus
2018-10-17 7:33 ` [linux-sunxi] " Jagan Teki
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