Re: [PATCH] vimc: debayer: Add support for ARGB format

[Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.com>]

Hello,

On 6/2/20 8:24 AM, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> Hi Helen, Dafna,
> 
> On 02/06/2020 11:55, Helen Koike wrote:
>>
>> On 6/2/20 7:52 AM, Dafna Hirschfeld wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01.06.20 14:16, Kaaira Gupta wrote:
>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 05:43:57PM +0200, Dafna Hirschfeld wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> Thanks for the patch
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know how real devices handle ARGB formats,
>>>>> I wonder if it should be the part of the debayer.
>>>>
>>>> Hi! qcam tries to support BA24 as it is one of the formats that vimc
>>>> lists as its supported formats wih --list-formats. Shouldn't BA24 be
>>>> possible to capture with vimc?
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Just to clarify, when listing the supported formats of a video node, the node lists
>>> the formats that the video node as an independent media entity support.
>>> It does not mean that the 'camera' as a whole (that is, the media topology graph) supports
>>> all the formats that the video node lists. When interacting with a video node or
>>> a subdevice node, one interacts only with that specific entity.
>>> In the case of vimc, the RGB video node as an independent entity supports BA24 so the format
>>> appears in the list of the its supported formats. But since the Debayer does not
>>> support it, the format can not be generated by the entire vimc topology.
>>> This is not a bug.
>>
>> This is also my understanding.
>>
>> You should have an -EPIPE error when start streaming though, it shouldn't fail silently.
> 
> Yes, we had -EPIPE, and that is what I think we were trying to resolve.
> 
> How would userspace be expected to detect what formats to use ? Should
> the available formats on the capture node depend on the current linking
> of the media graph?

This is a good question, I don't recall v4l2 API defining this.

It would be a bit hard to implement in Vimc, specially when we have configfs
for custom topology, since the capture would need to query all the pipeline.
But could be implemented.

> 
> Otherwise, to know what formats are supported - userspace must first
> 'get a list of formats' then try to 'set' the formats to know what is
> possible?

At the moment yes.

> 
> Or should (given VIMC is quite specialist anyway) userspace 'just know'
> what is capable all the same?
> 
> That's possibly fine, as we can simply remove support for the ARGB
> formats from the libcamera pipeline handler if it is never expected to
> be supported.

With the configfs feature, you could build a topology with sensor->capture,
and ARGB would be supported.

> 
> But then as a further question - what formats will we expect VIMC to
> support? VIVID has a (very) wide range of formats.
> 
> Would we ever expect VIMC to be as configurable?
> Or is the scope limited to what we have today?

I know it is very limited atm, but I would like to increase the range, I'm just
with a limited bandwitdh to work on it.

Thanks,
Helen

> 
> --
> Regards
> 
> Kieran
> 
> 
> 
>> Regards,
>> Helen
>>
>>>
>>> Hope t was helpful,
>>> Dafna
>>>  
>>>>
>>>> If yes, which entity should support it, if not debayer? Should there be
>>>> a separate conversion entity, or should we keep the support in debayer
>>>> itself for efficiency issues?
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 28.05.20 20:57, Kaaira Gupta wrote:
>>>>>> Running qcam for pixelformat 0x34324142 showed that vimc debayer does
>>>>>> not support it. Hence, add the support for Alpha (255).
>>>>>
>>>>> I would change the commit log to:
>>>>>
>>>>> Add support for V4L2_PIX_FMT_RGB24 format in the debayer
>>>>> and set the alpha channel to constant 255.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Dafna
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kaaira Gupta <kgupta@es.iitr.ac.in>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>    .../media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-debayer.c    | 27 ++++++++++++-------
>>>>>>    1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-debayer.c b/drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-debayer.c
>>>>>> index c3f6fef34f68..f34148717a40 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-debayer.c
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-debayer.c
>>>>>> @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ static const u32 vimc_deb_src_mbus_codes[] = {
>>>>>>        MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X7X4_SPWG,
>>>>>>        MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X7X4_JEIDA,
>>>>>>        MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X32_PADHI,
>>>>>> +    MEDIA_BUS_FMT_ARGB8888_1X32
>>>>>>    };
>>>>>>    static const struct vimc_deb_pix_map vimc_deb_pix_map_list[] = {
>>>>>> @@ -322,15 +323,23 @@ static void vimc_deb_process_rgb_frame(struct vimc_deb_device *vdeb,
>>>>>>        unsigned int i, index;
>>>>>>        vpix = vimc_pix_map_by_code(vdeb->src_code);
>>>>>> -    index = VIMC_FRAME_INDEX(lin, col, vdeb->sink_fmt.width, 3);
>>>>>> -    for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
>>>>>> -        switch (vpix->pixelformat) {
>>>>>> -        case V4L2_PIX_FMT_RGB24:
>>>>>> -            vdeb->src_frame[index + i] = rgb[i];
>>>>>> -            break;
>>>>>> -        case V4L2_PIX_FMT_BGR24:
>>>>>> -            vdeb->src_frame[index + i] = rgb[2 - i];
>>>>>> -            break;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +    if (vpix->pixelformat == V4L2_PIX_FMT_ARGB32) {
>>>>>> +        index =  VIMC_FRAME_INDEX(lin, col, vdeb->sink_fmt.width, 4);
>>>>>> +        vdeb->src_frame[index] = 255;
>>>>>> +        for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
>>>>>> +            vdeb->src_frame[index + i + 1] = rgb[i];
>>>>>> +    } else {
>>>>>> +        index =  VIMC_FRAME_INDEX(lin, col, vdeb->sink_fmt.width, 3);
>>>>>> +        for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
>>>>>> +            switch (vpix->pixelformat) {
>>>>>> +            case V4L2_PIX_FMT_RGB24:
>>>>>> +                vdeb->src_frame[index + i] = rgb[i];
>>>>>> +                break;
>>>>>> +            case V4L2_PIX_FMT_BGR24:
>>>>>> +                vdeb->src_frame[index + i] = rgb[2 - i];
>>>>>> +                break;
>>>>>> +            }
>>>>>>            }
>>>>>>        }
>>>>>>    }
>>>>>>
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