Re: [PATCH v15 00/14] media: rockchip: add a driver for the rockchip camera interface

["Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>]

Am Freitag, 14. November 2025, 16:20:11 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Michael Riesch via B4 Relay:
> This series introduces support for the Rockchip Camera Interface (CIF),
> which is featured in many Rockchip SoCs in different variations.
> The series has now been around for a while and has received many comments
> and reviews. Thus, it should be ready for mainline by now.
> 
> The last issue we discussed (see thread to v14, link below) was the
> necessary integration of a mux subdevice, as the MIPI CSI-2 data can
> be passed to the ISP and/or to the VICAP on RK3568. In order to avoid
> any uAPI breakage, the MIPI CSI-2 receiver support has been removed in v15
> (following an off-list discussion with Sakari).
> 
> Therefore, the v15 of the series adds a media controller centric V4L2
> device driver for the Rockchip CIF with
>  - support for the PX30 VIP (not tested, though, due to the lack of HW)
>  - support for the RK3568 VICAP, including
>     - capturing frames from the DVP
>     - capturing frames from the MIPI CSI-2 receiver
>  - abstraction for the ping-pong scheme to allow for future extensions
>  - abstraction for the INTERFACE and CROP parts to allow for future
>    extensions
>  - initial support for different virtual channels (not tested, though,
>    due to the lack of HW)
> 
> Apart from that, there are no changes compared to v14.
> 
> Looking forward to your comments!

[...]

> Michael Riesch (12):
>       Documentation: admin-guide: media: add rockchip camera interface
>       media: dt-bindings: video-interfaces: add defines for sampling modes
>       media: dt-bindings: add rockchip rk3568 vicap
>       media: rockchip: add driver for the rockchip camera interface
>       media: rockchip: rkcif: add abstraction for interface and crop blocks
>       media: rockchip: rkcif: add abstraction for dma blocks
>       media: rockchip: rkcif: add support for px30 vip dvp capture
>       media: rockchip: rkcif: add support for rk3568 vicap dvp capture
>       media: rockchip: rkcif: add support for rk3568 vicap mipi capture

for people playing along at home, patches 1-10 seems to have been merged
into the media-committers tree [0]


[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/linux-media/media-committers/-/commit/1f2353f5a1af995efbf7bea44341aa0d03460b28
    that commit and backwards in the history



>       arm64: defconfig: enable rockchip camera interface
>       arm64: dts: rockchip: add vicap node to rk356x
>       arm64: dts: rockchip: enable vicap dvp on wolfvision pf5 io expander