Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Add AMD ISP4 driver

Sultan Alsawaf
2025-07-26T22:31:58Z

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 06:22:03PM +0800, Du, Bin wrote:
> > I have the Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 SKU of the HP ZBook Ultra G1a 14.
> >
> > I cannot for the life of me get the webcam working under Linux. The webcam works
> > under Windows so it's not a hardware issue.
> >
> > With this patchset and all of the patches you link here applied to 6.15, I get
> > the following errors:
> > [ 11.970038] amd_isp_i2c_designware amd_isp_i2c_designware: Unknown Synopsys component type: 0xffffffff
> > [ 11.973162] amd_isp_i2c_designware amd_isp_i2c_designware: error -19: i2c_dw_probe failed
> >
> > With the old ispkernel code from February [1] applied on 6.15, the webcam
> > indicator LED lights up but there's no image. I see these messages at boot:
> > [ 9.449005] amd_isp_capture amd_isp_capture.1.auto: amdgpu: AMD ISP v4l2 device registered
> > [ 9.489005] amd_isp_i2c_designware amd_isp_i2c_designware.2.auto: The OV05 sensor device is added to the ISP I2C bus
> > [ 9.529012] amd_isp_i2c_designware amd_isp_i2c_designware.2.auto: timeout while trying to abort current transfer
> > [ 9.554046] amd_isp_i2c_designware amd_isp_i2c_designware.2.auto: timeout in disabling adapter
> > [ 9.554174] amd_isp_i2c_designware amd_isp_i2c_designware.2.auto: timeout while trying to abort current transfer
> > [ 9.580022] amd_isp_i2c_designware amd_isp_i2c_designware.2.auto: timeout in disabling adapter
> >
> > And then the kernel crashes due to the same use-after-free issues I pointed out
> > in my other email [2].
> >
> > Any idea what's going on?
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/amd/Linux_ISP_Kernel/commit/c6d42584fbd0aa42cc91ecf16dc5c4f3dfea0bb4
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/aIEiJL83pOYO8lUJ@sultan-box
> Hi Sultan,
>
> [1] is for kernel 6.8, believe it can't be applied to 6.15. We didn't verify
> on 6.15 but we are really glad to help, would you please provide some info,
> 1. Suppose you are using Ubuntu, right? What's the version?
> 2. 6.15, do you mean https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/v6.15 ?
>
> After your confirmation, we'll see what we can do to enable your camera
> quickly and easily
>
> Regards,
> Bin

Thank you, Bin!

1. I'm using Arch Linux with the ISP4-patched libcamera [1].
2. Yes, here is my kernel source [2].

I have some more findings:

Currently, the first blocking issue is that the I2C adapter fails to initialize.
This is because the ISP tile isn't powered on.

I noticed that in the old version of amd_isp_i2c_designware [3], there were
calls to isp_power_set(), which is available in the old ISP4 sources [4].
Without isp_power_set(), the I2C adapter always fails to initialize for me.

How is the ISP tile supposed to get powered on in the current ISP4 code?

Also, I noticed that the driver init ordering matters between all of the drivers
needed for the ISP4 camera. In particular, amd_isp_i2c_designware and amd_isp4
must be initialized before amd_capture, otherwise amd_capture will fail to find
the fwnode properties for the OV05C10 device attached to the I2C bus.

But there is no driver init ordering enforced, which also caused some issues for
me until I figured it out. Maybe probe deferral (-EPROBE_DEFER) should be used
to ensure each driver waits for its dependencies to init first?

[1] https://github.com/amd/Linux_ISP_libcamera/tree/3.0
[2] https://github.com/kerneltoast/kernel_x86_laptop/tree/v6.15-sultan-isp4
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250228164519.3453927-1-pratap.nirujogi@amd.com
[4] https://github.com/amd/Linux_ISP_Kernel/blob/c6d42584fbd0aa42cc91ecf16dc5c4f3dfea0bb4/drivers/media/platform/amd/isp4/isp_hwa.c#L378-L385

Sultan