Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] Add support for BCM2835 camera interface (unicam)

Jean-Michel Hautbois
2022-02-20T14:31:00Z

Hi Stefan,

On 16/02/2022 21:57, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Hi Jean-Michel,
>
> Am 08.02.22 um 16:50 schrieb Jean-Michel Hautbois:
>> Hello !
>>
>> ...
>>
>> In order to properly configure the media pipeline, it is needed to call
>> the usual ioctls, and configure routing in order to send the embedded
>> data from the sensor to the "unicam-embedded" device node :
>>
>> ```
>> media=0
>> media-ctl -d${media} -l "'imx219 2-0010':0->'unicam-subdev':0 [1]"
>> media-ctl -d${media} -l "'unicam-subdev':1->'unicam-image':0 [1]"
>> media-ctl -d${media} -v -R "'unicam-subdev' [0/0->1/0[1],0/1->2/0[1]]"
>> media-ctl -d${media} -V "'imx219 2-0010':0/0 [fmt:SRGGB10_1X10/3280x2464 field:none]"
>> v4l2-ctl -d0 --set-fmt-video width=3280,height=2464,pixelformat='pRAA',field=none
>> media-ctl -d${media} -v -V "'imx219 2-0010':0/1 [fmt:METADATA_8/16384x1 field:none]"
>> media-ctl -d${media} -p
>> ```
>
> i tried to test the unicam driver on a Raspberry Pi 4 with the imx219
> camera (based on 5.17-rc4). The unicam & imx219 driver probes and
> /dev/video0 is created.
>
> If a execute the first media-ctl command, it complains with invalid
> argument 22. Is there a more fool-proof variant to configure this (a
> script or something else)? I never used the unicam driver before.
>
> Here is the output of
>
> $ mediactl -d0 -p
>

Based on your output, I suppose the issue is the naming of the imx219
media entity ('imx219 2-0010' vs 'imx219 5-0010').
You could add a '-v' in the line to help you I suppose.

A more bullet-proof version of the commands is certainly doable, not
sure how though as I would not like to rewrite a libcamera-like command ;-).

> Media controller API version 5.17.0
>
> Media device information
> ------------------------
> driver          unicam
> model           unicam
> serial
> bus info        platform:fe801000.csi
> hw revision     0x0
> driver version  5.17.0
>
> Device topology
> - entity 1: unicam-subdev (3 pads, 3 links, 2 routes)
>             type V4L2 subdev subtype Unknown flags 0
>             device node name /dev/v4l-subdev0
>     routes:
>         0/0 -> 1/0 [ACTIVE]
>         0/1 -> 2/0 [ACTIVE]
>     pad0: Sink
>         [stream:0 fmt:unknown/0x0]
>         [stream:1 fmt:unknown/0x0]
>         <- "imx219 5-0010":0 [ENABLED,IMMUTABLE]
>     pad1: Source
>         [stream:0 fmt:unknown/0x0]
>         -> "unicam-image":0 [ENABLED,IMMUTABLE]
>     pad2: Source
>         [stream:0 fmt:unknown/0x0]
>         -> "unicam-embedded":0 [ENABLED,IMMUTABLE]
>
> - entity 5: imx219 5-0010 (1 pad, 1 link, 2 routes)
>             type V4L2 subdev subtype Sensor flags 0
>             device node name /dev/v4l-subdev1
>     routes:
>         0/0 -> 0/0 [ACTIVE, IMMUTABLE, SOURCE]
>         0/0 -> 0/1 [ACTIVE, SOURCE]
>     pad0: Source
>         [stream:0 fmt:SRGGB10_1X10/3280x2464 field:none colorspace:raw
>          crop.bounds:(8,8)/3280x2464
>          crop:(8,8)/3280x2464]
>         [stream:1 fmt:METADATA_8/16384x1 field:none
>          crop.bounds:(8,8)/3280x2464
>          crop:(8,8)/3280x2464]
>         -> "unicam-subdev":0 [ENABLED,IMMUTABLE]
>
> - entity 9: unicam-image (1 pad, 1 link, 0 route)
>             type Node subtype V4L flags 1
>             device node name /dev/video0
>     pad0: Sink
>         <- "unicam-subdev":1 [ENABLED,IMMUTABLE]
>
> - entity 15: unicam-embedded (1 pad, 1 link, 0 route)
>              type Node subtype V4L flags 0
>              device node name /dev/video1
>     pad0: Sink
>         <- "unicam-subdev":2 [ENABLED,IMMUTABLE]
>