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From: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>
To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Anthony.McGivern@arm.com, jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com,
	 nayden.kanchev@arm.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, mchehab@kernel.org,
	 krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org, conor+dt@kernel.org,
	 jerome.forissier@linaro.org, kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com,
	 laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, dan.scally@ideasonboard.com,
	 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
	 Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Subject: [PATCH v13 15/15] Documentation: mali-c55: Document the mali-c55 parameter setting
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:15:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251111-c55-v13-15-3dc581355e3a@ideasonboard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251111-c55-v13-0-3dc581355e3a@ideasonboard.com>

Document the mali-c55 parameter setting by expanding the relevant
pages in both admin-guide/ and userspace-api/.

Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Nayden Kanchev  <nayden.kanchev@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>
---
Changes in v12:

	- None

Changes in v11:

	- Updated the documentation to account for the use of the
	  V4L2 extensible params

Changes in v10:

	- None

Changes in v9:

	- None

Changes in v8:

	- None

Changes in v7:

	- None

Changes in v7:

	- None

Changes in v6:

	- Minor rewording

Changes in v5:

	- New patch
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/media/mali-c55.rst       | 19 ++++++-
 .../media/v4l/metafmt-arm-mali-c55.rst             | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/mali-c55.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/mali-c55.rst
index 03723e0e8e43f17a04ede0032b2ddbfdb859d1e3..315f982000c48e46a2be0e7210b657d5af611e14 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/mali-c55.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/mali-c55.rst
@@ -387,9 +387,24 @@ the processing flow the statistics can be drawn from::
                        +-------------+   |    +-------------+
                                          +-->  AWB-1
 
-At present all statistics are drawn from the 0th tap point for each algorithm;
+By default all statistics are drawn from the 0th tap point for each algorithm;
 I.E. AEXP statistics from AEXP-0 (A), AWB statistics from AWB-0 and AF
-statistics from AF-0. In the future this will be configurable.
+statistics from AF-0. This is configurable for AEXP and AWB statsistics through
+programming the ISP's parameters.
+
+.. _mali-c55-3a-params:
+
+Programming ISP Parameters
+==========================
+
+The ISP can be programmed with various parameters from userspace to apply to the
+hardware before and during video stream. This allows userspace to dynamically
+change values such as black level, white balance and lens shading gains and so
+on.
+
+The buffer format and how to populate it are described by the
+:ref:`V4L2_META_FMT_MALI_C55_PARAMS <v4l2-meta-fmt-mali-c55-params>` format,
+which should be set as the data format for the `mali-c55 3a params` video node.
 
 References
 ==========
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-arm-mali-c55.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-arm-mali-c55.rst
index 0bda9740a6be20df541ac7cf78e45e510f79ad19..49d6b8080ecec1013a93f5283a00a3fa0d7ebb17 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-arm-mali-c55.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-arm-mali-c55.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 
+.. _v4l2-meta-fmt-mali-c55-params:
 .. _v4l2-meta-fmt-mali-c55-stats:
 
-*************************************
-V4L2_META_FMT_MALI_C55_STATS ('C55S')
-*************************************
+*****************************************************************************
+V4L2_META_FMT_MALI_C55_STATS ('C55S'), V4L2_META_FMT_MALI_C55_PARAMS ('C55P')
+*****************************************************************************
 
 3A Statistics
 =============
@@ -23,6 +24,65 @@ of the C structure :c:type:`mali_c55_stats_buffer` defined in
 
 For details of the statistics see :c:type:`mali_c55_stats_buffer`.
 
+Configuration Parameters
+========================
+
+The configuration parameters are passed to the
+:ref:`mali-c55 3a params <mali-c55-3a-params>` metadata output video node, using
+the :c:type:`v4l2_meta_format` interface. Rather than a single struct containing
+sub-structs for each configurable area of the ISP, parameters for the Mali-C55
+use the V4L2 extensible parameters system, through which groups of parameters
+are defined as distinct structs or "blocks" which may be added to the data
+member of :c:type:`v4l2_params_buffer`. Userspace is responsible for populating
+the data member with the blocks that need to be configured by the driver, but
+need not populate it with **all** the blocks, or indeed with any at all if there
+are no configuration changes to make. Populated blocks **must** be consecutive
+in the buffer. To assist both userspace and the driver in identifying the
+blocks each block-specific struct embeds :c:type:`v4l2_params_block_header` as
+its first member and userspace must populate the type member with a value from
+:c:type:`mali_c55_param_block_type`. Once the blocks have been populated
+into the data buffer, the combined size of all populated blocks shall be set in
+the data_size member of :c:type:`v4l2_params_buffer`. For example:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	struct v4l2_params_buffer *params =
+		(struct v4l2_params_buffer *)buffer;
+
+	params->version = MALI_C55_PARAM_BUFFER_V1;
+	params->data_size = 0;
+
+	void *data = (void *)params->data;
+
+	struct mali_c55_params_awb_gains *gains =
+		(struct mali_c55_params_awb_gains *)data;
+
+	gains->header.type = MALI_C55_PARAM_BLOCK_AWB_GAINS;
+	gains->header.flags |= V4L2_PARAMS_FL_BLOCK_ENABLE;
+	gains->header.size = sizeof(struct mali_c55_params_awb_gains);
+
+	gains->gain00 = 256;
+	gains->gain00 = 256;
+	gains->gain00 = 256;
+	gains->gain00 = 256;
+
+	data += sizeof(struct mali_c55_params_awb_gains);
+	params->data_size += sizeof(struct mali_c55_params_awb_gains);
+
+	struct mali_c55_params_sensor_off_preshading *blc =
+		(struct mali_c55_params_sensor_off_preshading *)data;
+
+	blc->header.type = MALI_C55_PARAM_BLOCK_SENSOR_OFFS;
+	blc->header.flags |= V4L2_PARAMS_FL_BLOCK_ENABLE;
+	blc->header.size = sizeof(struct mali_c55_params_sensor_off_preshading);
+
+	blc->chan00 = 51200;
+	blc->chan01 = 51200;
+	blc->chan10 = 51200;
+	blc->chan11 = 51200;
+
+	params->total_size += sizeof(struct mali_c55_params_sensor_off_preshading);
+
 Arm Mali-C55 uAPI data types
 ============================
 

-- 
2.43.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-11 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-11 16:15 [PATCH v13 00/15] Add Arm Mali-C55 Image Signal Processor Driver Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 01/15] media: uapi: Add MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB202020_1X60 format code Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 02/15] media: uapi: Add 20-bit bayer formats Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 03/15] dt-bindings: media: Add bindings for ARM mali-c55 Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 04/15] media: uapi: Add controls for Mali-C55 ISP Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 06/15] media: Documentation: Add Mali-C55 ISP Documentation Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 07/15] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for mali-c55 driver Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 08/15] media: Add MALI_C55_3A_STATS meta format Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 09/15] media: uapi: Add 3a stats buffer for mali-c55 Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 10/15] media: platform: Add mali-c55 3a stats devnode Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 11/15] Documentation: mali-c55: Add Statistics documentation Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 12/15] media: mali-c55: Add image formats for Mali-C55 parameters buffer Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 13/15] media: uapi: Add parameters structs to mali-c55-config.h Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` [PATCH v13 14/15] media: platform: Add mali-c55 parameters video node Daniel Scally
2025-11-11 16:15 ` Daniel Scally [this message]
2025-11-13  8:39   ` [PATCH v13 15/15] Documentation: mali-c55: Document the mali-c55 parameter setting Jacopo Mondi
2025-11-14 14:49     ` Sakari Ailus
2025-11-14 14:57       ` Jacopo Mondi
2025-11-14 15:28         ` Sakari Ailus

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