Hi, Jon:
for PXA910, MMP2(Armda 610)
actually, CCIC are almost the same.
but MMP2 has 2 CCIC controllers, and PXA910 only has 1 CCIC controller.
so it is quite make your driver works on MMP2 and PXA910.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:30:11 +0800
> Kassey Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 1) this driver is still based on cafe_ccic.c, as you said, we
>> can abstract the low level register function, and use soc_camera and
>> videofbu2 to manage the buff and state machine, how do you think ?
>
> As I said, videobuf2 is on my list of things to do. Note that the driver
> works just fine without - that code has been in the kernel and working for
> years. But it's a cleanup that needs to be done at this point, and I will
> do it.
>
Since we have converted a videfbuf2 version for PXA910, could you have
time to review ?
and find the common part to make a better one works on cafe-ccic,
PXA910, and MMP2 ?
it takes quite time to convert from cafe-ccic.c to videfbuf2 for me.
>> 2) i2c_adapter, how about move this code to driver/i2c, then
>> ccic driver will become clean?
>
> The problem there is that you can't easily disentangle the two devices -
> they use the same registers, the same IRQ line, etc. One *could* turn the
> whole thing into an MFD driver and split them apart, but I honestly don't
> see a reason to do that. I'd be surprised if a Cafe chip ever shows up in
> anything new these days, so it's only used in the OLPC XO 1, and that i2c
> will never be used for anything but the sensor.
>
> The i2c *has* been abstracted out of the camera core, so the Cafe i2c
> implementation will not get in the way of any new drivers.
>
for cafe i2c, it is OK.
but for PXA910 and MMP2, the i2c adapter is out of CCIC.
>> 3) in mmp_driver.c, it has the sensor name, OV7670, we wish
>> that ccic driver do not need to aware of the sensor, also we need to
>> support front and back camera sensor cases.
>
> The only reason the ov7670 dependency is there is because that's the only
> sensor the driver has ever been used with. Adding other sensors has been
> complicated a bit by Hans's changes which pushed awareness of the
> available video formats into the controller driver (I complained at the
> time), but that can be worked around.
>
> For front and back: I didn't wire up the second controller in the mmp
> driver because I don't have a device that uses both. I very much wrote
> the driver with the idea that both controllers could be used, though;
> finishing that job will be easy.
>
sorry for confusion, we have another case:
one CCIC should work with two sensors, and switch them by need.
what i mean, for CCIC driver it should not aware the sensor, it can be
done by user application.
> One thing I haven't done is to look at your driver closely enough to think
> about whether mmp_camera can drive your hardware or not. You'll have a
> better idea of that than me, I suspect; is the hardware pretty much the
> same?
>
I will update my driver again after Guennadi's comments, would you
please have time to review ?
1) add Jon's email, and cafe-ccic.c copyright.
2) set_bus_param check for HSYNC, PCLK
3) code stye fix.
> Thanks,
>
> jon
>
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Best regards
Kassey
Application Processor Systems Engineering, Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
Shanghai, China.
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