Re: gc2145 camera driver (front camera on PinePhone)

[Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 23-08-29 16:40, Alain Volmat wrote:
> Hi Andrey,
> 
> sorry for the delay and huge thanks for the effort of adding parallel
> support into the driver.
> 
> Yeah pushing this driver is still in my todo and your effort for the
> parallel part helps me a lot.
That's good.

> Since you already have a commit which adds the parallel support, what
> about I prepare the driver with only CSI support for the time being
> (after cleanup as you also suggested) and then you can push additionnal
> patches on top of it to add parallel support ?

let's do that. I'll try find time for that, when you are ready. Until
that I've improved awb support on Megi's kernel based on your driver.

1. https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team/devices/kernels/sunxi64-linux/-/merge_requests/95

> Regards,
> Alain
> 
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 08:38:44PM +0300, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> > Hi Alain,
> > 
> > > we are also using the GC2145 sensor but in a CSI based environment.
> > > 
> > > We are in contact with GalaxyCore and following discussions we had with them
> > > and data they provided us with, we've made a driver for that, supporting for
> > > the time being 3 different resolutions via the CSI interface.
> > > 
> > > The driver is available on the STMicroelectronics STM32 github [1].
> > > 
> > > If you are ok with that, we could go further upstreaming it while testing/adding
> > > features necessary for the PinePhone.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/linux/blob/v5.15-stm32mp/drivers/media/i2c/gc2145.c
> > 
> > I've implemented basic parallel bus support to check your driver [1] on
> > the PinePhone. My changes are here [2].
> > With your driver results are much better in compare to Megi's
> > driver (I'm still glad, that Megi has written one). See pictures for
> > comparison here [3]. Access to vendor support and (probably)
> > documentation gives great results.
> > 
> > I'd recommend to replace more of hard-coded parts of initialization
> > sequences with functions like in proposed Megi's driver. So this will
> > be clearer what different register values mean. Since you have access
> > to support channel/documentation it'd be easier for you to do.
> > 
> > It'd be nice to have at least some gc2145 driver in mainline. Do you
> > still have plans/time to mainline driver?
> > 
> > P.S.
> > Alain, I don't see your address in the list of recipients of last Pavel's
> > response. In case you have not received it, it's here [4].
> > 
> > 1. https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/linux/blob/v6.1-stm32mp/drivers/media/i2c/gc2145.c
> > 2. https://github.com/AndreySV/linux/commit/f06ff60eb7a664dcafa8d40901a1ab0f59071529
> > 3. https://github.com/AndreySV/linux/issues/1
> > 4. https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/Y6tGfxrq/Mh1JoA9@duo.ucw.cz
> > -- 
> > Best regards,
> > Andrey Skvortsov

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Best regards,
Andrey Skvortsov