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-Samsung S5P/EXYNOS4 FIMC driver
-
-Copyright (C) 2012 - 2013 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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-
-The FIMC (Fully Interactive Mobile Camera) device available in Samsung
-SoC Application Processors is an integrated camera host interface, color
-space converter, image resizer and rotator. It's also capable of capturing
-data from LCD controller (FIMD) through the SoC internal writeback data
-path. There are multiple FIMC instances in the SoCs (up to 4), having
-slightly different capabilities, like pixel alignment constraints, rotator
-availability, LCD writeback support, etc. The driver is located at
-drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is directory.
-
-1. Supported SoCs
-=================
-
-S5PC100 (mem-to-mem only), S5PV210, EXYNOS4210
-
-2. Supported features
-=====================
-
- - camera parallel interface capture (ITU-R.BT601/565);
- - camera serial interface capture (MIPI-CSI2);
- - memory-to-memory processing (color space conversion, scaling, mirror
- and rotation);
- - dynamic pipeline re-configuration at runtime (re-attachment of any FIMC
- instance to any parallel video input or any MIPI-CSI front-end);
- - runtime PM and system wide suspend/resume
-
-Not currently supported:
- - LCD writeback input
- - per frame clock gating (mem-to-mem)
-
-3. Files partitioning
-=====================
-
-- media device driver
- drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/media-dev.[ch]
-
- - camera capture video device driver
- drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-capture.c
-
- - MIPI-CSI2 receiver subdev
- drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/mipi-csis.[ch]
-
- - video post-processor (mem-to-mem)
- drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-core.c
-
- - common files
- drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-core.h
- drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-reg.h
- drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/regs-fimc.h
-
-4. User space interfaces
-========================
-
-4.1. Media device interface
-
-The driver supports Media Controller API as defined at
-https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/media_common.html
-The media device driver name is "SAMSUNG S5P FIMC".
-
-The purpose of this interface is to allow changing assignment of FIMC instances
-to the SoC peripheral camera input at runtime and optionally to control internal
-connections of the MIPI-CSIS device(s) to the FIMC entities.
-
-The media device interface allows to configure the SoC for capturing image
-data from the sensor through more than one FIMC instance (e.g. for simultaneous
-viewfinder and still capture setup).
-Reconfiguration is done by enabling/disabling media links created by the driver
-during initialization. The internal device topology can be easily discovered
-through media entity and links enumeration.
-
-4.2. Memory-to-memory video node
-
-V4L2 memory-to-memory interface at /dev/video? device node. This is standalone
-video device, it has no media pads. However please note the mem-to-mem and
-capture video node operation on same FIMC instance is not allowed. The driver
-detects such cases but the applications should prevent them to avoid an
-undefined behaviour.
-
-4.3. Capture video node
-
-The driver supports V4L2 Video Capture Interface as defined at:
-https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/devices.html
-
-At the capture and mem-to-mem video nodes only the multi-planar API is
-supported. For more details see:
-https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/planar-apis.html
-
-4.4. Camera capture subdevs
-
-Each FIMC instance exports a sub-device node (/dev/v4l-subdev?), a sub-device
-node is also created per each available and enabled at the platform level
-MIPI-CSI receiver device (currently up to two).
-
-4.5. sysfs
-
-In order to enable more precise camera pipeline control through the sub-device
-API the driver creates a sysfs entry associated with "s5p-fimc-md" platform
-device. The entry path is: /sys/platform/devices/s5p-fimc-md/subdev_conf_mode.
-
-In typical use case there could be a following capture pipeline configuration:
-sensor subdev -> mipi-csi subdev -> fimc subdev -> video node
-
-When we configure these devices through sub-device API at user space, the
-configuration flow must be from left to right, and the video node is
-configured as last one.
-When we don't use sub-device user space API the whole configuration of all
-devices belonging to the pipeline is done at the video node driver.
-The sysfs entry allows to instruct the capture node driver not to configure
-the sub-devices (format, crop), to avoid resetting the subdevs' configuration
-when the last configuration steps at the video node is performed.
-
-For full sub-device control support (subdevs configured at user space before
-starting streaming):
-# echo "sub-dev" > /sys/platform/devices/s5p-fimc-md/subdev_conf_mode
-
-For V4L2 video node control only (subdevs configured internally by the host
-driver):
-# echo "vid-dev" > /sys/platform/devices/s5p-fimc-md/subdev_conf_mode
-This is a default option.
-
-5. Device mapping to video and subdev device nodes
-==================================================
-
-There are associated two video device nodes with each device instance in
-hardware - video capture and mem-to-mem and additionally a subdev node for
-more precise FIMC capture subsystem control. In addition a separate v4l2
-sub-device node is created per each MIPI-CSIS device.
-
-How to find out which /dev/video? or /dev/v4l-subdev? is assigned to which
-device?
-
-You can either grep through the kernel log to find relevant information, i.e.
-# dmesg | grep -i fimc
-(note that udev, if present, might still have rearranged the video nodes),
-
-or retrieve the information from /dev/media? with help of the media-ctl tool:
-# media-ctl -p
-
-7. Build
-========
-
-If the driver is built as a loadable kernel module (CONFIG_VIDEO_SAMSUNG_S5P_FIMC=m)
-two modules are created (in addition to the core v4l2 modules): s5p-fimc.ko and
-optional s5p-csis.ko (MIPI-CSI receiver subdev).