Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] media: i2c: add Sony IMX111 CMOS camera sensor driver

[Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 06:24:25PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Svyatoslav,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 09:20:10PM +0300, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
> > чт, 28 серп. 2025 р. о 19:12 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> пише:
> > >
> > > Hi Svyatoslaw,
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 03:04:25PM +0300, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
> > > > Add driver for Sony IMX111 CMOS sensor found in LG Optimus 4X and Vu
> > > > smartphones.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the set.
> > >
> > > I wonder how would the sensor work with the CCS driver. The register layout
> > > appears to be very much aligned with that (I haven't checked whether there
> > > are MSRs that depend on the mode).
> > >
> > 
> > After deeper testing I have found that imx111 may be nokia,smia
> > compatible, at least most of general registers and CCS logic is
> > applicable. Some of registers may cause issues, for example,
> > "phy_ctrl_capability" = 0, 0x0 and some insane pll ranges. Maybe that
> > can be addressed with a firmware patch idk. The trickiest part is that
> > each mode requires non-standard and non-common manufacturer code
> > (0x3xxx ranges). If you can explain how to address these issues, I
> > would love to add imx111 and a few other modules into list of CCS
> > supported devices.
> 
> On a closer look, only the image size related configuration and a little
> more appears to be CCS-like. That's not enough to configure the sensor;
> this is conveyed in the MSR space which indeed makes the sensor difficult
> to control using the CCS driver, unfortunately.

Ok, the driver appears to be doing quite a bit of register writes outside
the register lists, which is good, and what's there appears indeed largely
CCS compliant. The MSRs remain an issue; it'd take quite a bit of reverse
engineering to figure out what the registers are and how to configure them
in a generic way. I think that's doable but I'm not sure it is justifiable
considering the expected effort.

-- 
Sakari Ailus