1 OMAP 3 Image Signal Processor (ISP) driver
3 Copyright (C) 2010 Nokia Corporation
4 Copyright (C) 2009 Texas Instruments, Inc.
6 Contacts: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
7 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
8 David Cohen <dacohen@gmail.com>
14 This file documents the Texas Instruments OMAP 3 Image Signal Processor (ISP)
15 driver located under drivers/media/video/omap3isp. The original driver was
16 written by Texas Instruments but since that it has been rewritten (twice) at
19 The driver has been successfully used on the following versions of OMAP 3:
25 The driver implements V4L2, Media controller and v4l2_subdev interfaces.
26 Sensor, lens and flash drivers using the v4l2_subdev interface in the kernel
33 The OMAP 3 ISP is split into V4L2 subdevs, each of the blocks inside the ISP
34 having one subdev to represent it. Each of the subdevs provide a V4L2 subdev
35 interface to userspace.
46 Each possible link in the ISP is modelled by a link in the Media controller
47 interface. For an example program see [2].
50 Controlling the OMAP 3 ISP
51 ==========================
53 In general, the settings given to the OMAP 3 ISP take effect at the beginning
54 of the following frame. This is done when the module becomes idle during the
55 vertical blanking period on the sensor. In memory-to-memory operation the pipe
56 is run one frame at a time. Applying the settings is done between the frames.
58 All the blocks in the ISP, excluding the CSI-2 and possibly the CCP2 receiver,
59 insist on receiving complete frames. Sensors must thus never send the ISP
62 Autoidle does have issues with some ISP blocks on the 3430, at least.
63 Autoidle is only enabled on 3630 when the omap3isp module parameter autoidle
70 The OMAP 3 ISP driver does support the V4L2 event interface on CCDC and
71 statistics (AEWB, AF and histogram) subdevs.
73 The CCDC subdev produces V4L2_EVENT_OMAP3ISP_HS_VS type event on HS_VS
74 interrupt which is used to signal frame start. The event is triggered exactly
75 when the reception of the first line of the frame starts in the CCDC module.
76 The event can be subscribed on the CCDC subdev.
78 (When using parallel interface one must pay account to correct configuration
79 of the VS signal polarity. This is automatically correct when using the serial
82 Each of the statistics subdevs is able to produce events. An event is
83 generated whenever a statistics buffer can be dequeued by a user space
84 application using the VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_STAT_REQ IOCTL. The events available
87 V4L2_EVENT_OMAP3ISP_AEWB
88 V4L2_EVENT_OMAP3ISP_AF
89 V4L2_EVENT_OMAP3ISP_HIST
91 The type of the event data is struct omap3isp_stat_event_status for these
92 ioctls. If there is an error calculating the statistics, there will be an
93 event as usual, but no related statistics buffer. In this case
94 omap3isp_stat_event_status.buf_err is set to non-zero.
100 The OMAP 3 ISP driver supports standard V4L2 IOCTLs and controls where
101 possible and practical. Much of the functions provided by the ISP, however,
102 does not fall under the standard IOCTLs --- gamma tables and configuration of
103 statistics collection are examples of such.
105 In general, there is a private ioctl for configuring each of the blocks
106 containing hardware-dependent functions.
108 The following private IOCTLs are supported:
110 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_CCDC_CFG
111 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_PRV_CFG
112 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_AEWB_CFG
113 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_HIST_CFG
114 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_AF_CFG
115 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_STAT_REQ
116 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_STAT_EN
118 The parameter structures used by these ioctls are described in
119 include/linux/omap3isp.h. The detailed functions of the ISP itself related to
120 a given ISP block is described in the Technical Reference Manuals (TRMs) ---
121 see the end of the document for those.
123 While it is possible to use the ISP driver without any use of these private
124 IOCTLs it is not possible to obtain optimal image quality this way. The AEWB,
125 AF and histogram modules cannot be used without configuring them using the
126 appropriate private IOCTLs.
129 CCDC and preview block IOCTLs
130 =============================
132 The VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_CCDC_CFG and VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_PRV_CFG IOCTLs are used to
133 configure, enable and disable functions in the CCDC and preview blocks,
134 respectively. Both IOCTLs control several functions in the blocks they
135 control. VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_CCDC_CFG IOCTL accepts a pointer to struct
136 omap3isp_ccdc_update_config as its argument. Similarly VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_PRV_CFG
137 accepts a pointer to struct omap3isp_prev_update_config. The definition of
138 both structures is available in [1].
140 The update field in the structures tells whether to update the configuration
141 for the specific function and the flag tells whether to enable or disable the
144 The update and flag bit masks accept the following values. Each separate
145 functions in the CCDC and preview blocks is associated with a flag (either
146 disable or enable; part of the flag field in the structure) and a pointer to
147 configuration data for the function.
149 Valid values for the update and flag fields are listed here for
150 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_CCDC_CFG. Values may be or'ed to configure more than one
151 function in the same IOCTL call.
155 OMAP3ISP_CCDC_BLCLAMP
159 OMAP3ISP_CCDC_CONFIG_LSC
160 OMAP3ISP_CCDC_TBL_LSC
162 The corresponding values for the VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_PRV_CFG are here:
164 OMAP3ISP_PREV_LUMAENH
165 OMAP3ISP_PREV_INVALAW
166 OMAP3ISP_PREV_HRZ_MED
168 OMAP3ISP_PREV_CHROMA_SUPP
171 OMAP3ISP_PREV_RGB2RGB
172 OMAP3ISP_PREV_COLOR_CONV
173 OMAP3ISP_PREV_YC_LIMIT
174 OMAP3ISP_PREV_DEFECT_COR
175 OMAP3ISP_PREV_GAMMABYPASS
176 OMAP3ISP_PREV_DRK_FRM_CAPTURE
177 OMAP3ISP_PREV_DRK_FRM_SUBTRACT
178 OMAP3ISP_PREV_LENS_SHADING
182 The associated configuration pointer for the function may not be NULL when
183 enabling the function. When disabling a function the configuration pointer is
187 Statistic blocks IOCTLs
188 =======================
190 The statistics subdevs do offer more dynamic configuration options than the
191 other subdevs. They can be enabled, disable and reconfigured when the pipeline
192 is in streaming state.
194 The statistics blocks always get the input image data from the CCDC (as the
195 histogram memory read isn't implemented). The statistics are dequeueable by
196 the user from the statistics subdev nodes using private IOCTLs.
198 The private IOCTLs offered by the AEWB, AF and histogram subdevs are heavily
199 reflected by the register level interface offered by the ISP hardware. There
200 are aspects that are purely related to the driver implementation and these are
203 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_STAT_EN
204 -----------------------
206 This private IOCTL enables/disables a statistic module. If this request is
207 done before streaming, it will take effect as soon as the pipeline starts to
208 stream. If the pipeline is already streaming, it will take effect as soon as
209 the CCDC becomes idle.
211 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_AEWB_CFG, VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_HIST_CFG and VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_AF_CFG
212 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
214 Those IOCTLs are used to configure the modules. They require user applications
215 to have an in-depth knowledge of the hardware. Most of the fields explanation
216 can be found on OMAP's TRMs. The two following fields common to all the above
217 configure private IOCTLs require explanation for better understanding as they
218 are not part of the TRM.
220 omap3isp_[h3a_af/h3a_aewb/hist]_config.buf_size:
222 The modules handle their buffers internally. The necessary buffer size for the
223 module's data output depends on the requested configuration. Although the
224 driver supports reconfiguration while streaming, it does not support a
225 reconfiguration which requires bigger buffer size than what is already
226 internally allocated if the module is enabled. It will return -EBUSY on this
227 case. In order to avoid such condition, either disable/reconfigure/enable the
228 module or request the necessary buffer size during the first configuration
229 while the module is disabled.
231 The internal buffer size allocation considers the requested configuration's
232 minimum buffer size and the value set on buf_size field. If buf_size field is
233 out of [minimum, maximum] buffer size range, it's clamped to fit in there.
234 The driver then selects the biggest value. The corrected buf_size value is
235 written back to user application.
237 omap3isp_[h3a_af/h3a_aewb/hist]_config.config_counter:
239 As the configuration doesn't take effect synchronously to the request, the
240 driver must provide a way to track this information to provide more accurate
241 data. After a configuration is requested, the config_counter returned to user
242 space application will be an unique value associated to that request. When
243 user application receives an event for buffer availability or when a new
244 buffer is requested, this config_counter is used to match a buffer data and a
247 VIDIOC_OMAP3ISP_STAT_REQ
248 ------------------------
250 Send to user space the oldest data available in the internal buffer queue and
251 discards such buffer afterwards. The field omap3isp_stat_data.frame_number
252 matches with the video buffer's field_count.
255 Technical reference manuals (TRMs) and other documentation
256 ==========================================================
259 <URL:http://focus.ti.com/pdfs/wtbu/OMAP34xx_ES3.1.x_PUBLIC_TRM_vZM.zip>
260 Referenced 2011-03-05.
263 <URL:http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/spruf98o> Referenced 2011-03-05.
266 <URL:http://focus.ti.com/pdfs/wtbu/OMAP36xx_ES1.x_PUBLIC_TRM_vQ.zip>
267 Referenced 2011-03-05.
270 <URL:http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/sprugn4h> Referenced 2011-03-06.
276 [1] include/linux/omap3isp.h
278 [2] http://git.ideasonboard.org/?p=media-ctl.git;a=summary