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-rw-r--r--Documentation/guides/pipeline-handler.rst13
-rw-r--r--include/libcamera/controls.h10
-rw-r--r--include/libcamera/ipa/ipa_controls.h3
-rw-r--r--src/libcamera/control_serializer.cpp4
-rw-r--r--src/libcamera/controls.cpp24
-rw-r--r--src/libcamera/ipa_controls.cpp2
-rw-r--r--src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp2
-rwxr-xr-xutils/gen-controls.py8
8 files changed, 48 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/guides/pipeline-handler.rst b/Documentation/guides/pipeline-handler.rst
index 26dc9358..ad2a5beb 100644
--- a/Documentation/guides/pipeline-handler.rst
+++ b/Documentation/guides/pipeline-handler.rst
@@ -610,10 +610,15 @@ information can be found in the `ControlInfoMap`_ class documentation.
.. _ControlInfoMap: https://libcamera.org/api-html/classlibcamera_1_1ControlInfoMap.html
Pipeline handlers register controls to expose the tunable device and IPA
-parameters to applications. Our example pipeline handler only exposes trivial
-controls of the video device, by registering a ``ControlId`` instance with
-associated values for each supported V4L2 control but demonstrates the mapping
-of V4L2 Controls to libcamera ControlIDs.
+parameters to applications and register properties to expose the Camera
+immutable characteristics. Controls and properties which have the ``required``
+field specified in the YAML definition are mandatory to be supported by a Camera
+in order for it to comply with the libcamera API specification.
+
+Our example pipeline handler only exposes trivial controls of the video device,
+by registering a ``ControlId`` instance with associated values for each
+supported V4L2 control but demonstrates the mapping of V4L2 Controls to
+libcamera ControlIDs.
Complete the initialization of the ``VividCameraData`` class by adding the
following code to the ``VividCameraData::init()`` function to initialise the
diff --git a/include/libcamera/controls.h b/include/libcamera/controls.h
index cf942055..01821191 100644
--- a/include/libcamera/controls.h
+++ b/include/libcamera/controls.h
@@ -213,14 +213,15 @@ private:
class ControlId
{
public:
- ControlId(unsigned int id, const std::string &name, ControlType type)
- : id_(id), name_(name), type_(type)
+ ControlId(unsigned int id, const std::string &name, ControlType type, bool required)
+ : id_(id), name_(name), type_(type), required_(required)
{
}
unsigned int id() const { return id_; }
const std::string &name() const { return name_; }
ControlType type() const { return type_; }
+ bool required() const { return required_; }
private:
LIBCAMERA_DISABLE_COPY_AND_MOVE(ControlId)
@@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ private:
unsigned int id_;
std::string name_;
ControlType type_;
+ bool required_;
};
static inline bool operator==(unsigned int lhs, const ControlId &rhs)
@@ -256,8 +258,8 @@ class Control : public ControlId
public:
using type = T;
- Control(unsigned int id, const char *name)
- : ControlId(id, name, details::control_type<std::remove_cv_t<T>>::value)
+ Control(unsigned int id, const char *name, bool required)
+ : ControlId(id, name, details::control_type<std::remove_cv_t<T>>::value, required)
{
}
diff --git a/include/libcamera/ipa/ipa_controls.h b/include/libcamera/ipa/ipa_controls.h
index e5da1946..5268b0a8 100644
--- a/include/libcamera/ipa/ipa_controls.h
+++ b/include/libcamera/ipa/ipa_controls.h
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ struct ipa_control_info_entry {
uint32_t id;
uint32_t type;
uint32_t offset;
- uint32_t padding[1];
+ uint8_t required;
+ uint8_t padding[3];
};
#ifdef __cplusplus
diff --git a/src/libcamera/control_serializer.cpp b/src/libcamera/control_serializer.cpp
index 0cf719bd..b9ed1eea 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/control_serializer.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/control_serializer.cpp
@@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ int ControlSerializer::serialize(const ControlInfoMap &infoMap,
entry.id = id->id();
entry.type = id->type();
entry.offset = values.offset();
+ entry.required = id->required();
entries.write(&entry);
store(info, values);
@@ -498,7 +499,8 @@ ControlInfoMap ControlSerializer::deserialize<ControlInfoMap>(ByteStreamBuffer &
* debugging purpose.
*/
controlIds_.emplace_back(std::make_unique<ControlId>(entry->id,
- "", type));
+ "", type,
+ entry->required));
(*localIdMap)[entry->id] = controlIds_.back().get();
}
diff --git a/src/libcamera/controls.cpp b/src/libcamera/controls.cpp
index b808116c..25f30953 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/controls.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/controls.cpp
@@ -378,18 +378,19 @@ void ControlValue::reserve(ControlType type, bool isArray, std::size_t numElemen
* \class ControlId
* \brief Control static metadata
*
- * The ControlId class stores a control ID, name and data type. It provides
- * unique identification of a control, but without support for compile-time
- * type deduction that the derived template Control class supports. See the
- * Control class for more information.
+ * The ControlId class stores a control ID, name, data type and a boolean
+ * 'required' flag. It provides unique identification of a control, but without
+ * support for compile-time type deduction that the derived template Control
+ * class supports. See the Control class for more information.
*/
/**
- * \fn ControlId::ControlId(unsigned int id, const std::string &name, ControlType type)
+ * \fn ControlId::ControlId(unsigned int id, const std::string &name, ControlType type, bool required)
* \brief Construct a ControlId instance
* \param[in] id The control numerical ID
* \param[in] name The control name
* \param[in] type The control data type
+ * \param[in] required Boolean flag that determine if the control is required
*/
/**
@@ -411,6 +412,16 @@ void ControlValue::reserve(ControlType type, bool isArray, std::size_t numElemen
*/
/**
+ * \fn bool ControlId::required() const
+ * \brief Determine if the control is required or not
+ *
+ * A control is 'required' if it is mandatory for a Camera to support it to
+ * comply with the libcamera API specification.
+ *
+ * \return True if the control is required, false otherwise
+ */
+
+/**
* \fn bool operator==(unsigned int lhs, const ControlId &rhs)
* \brief Compare a ControlId with a control numerical ID
* \param[in] lhs Left-hand side numerical ID
@@ -456,10 +467,11 @@ void ControlValue::reserve(ControlType type, bool isArray, std::size_t numElemen
*/
/**
- * \fn Control::Control(unsigned int id, const char *name)
+ * \fn Control::Control(unsigned int id, const char *name, bool required)
* \brief Construct a Control instance
* \param[in] id The control numerical ID
* \param[in] name The control name
+ * \param[in] required Boolean flag that determine if a control is required
*
* The control data type is automatically deduced from the template type T.
*/
diff --git a/src/libcamera/ipa_controls.cpp b/src/libcamera/ipa_controls.cpp
index 870a443b..2376cbd9 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/ipa_controls.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/ipa_controls.cpp
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ static_assert(sizeof(ipa_control_value_entry) == 16,
* \var ipa_control_info_entry::offset
* The offset in bytes from the beginning of the data section to the control
* info data (shall be a multiple of 8 bytes)
+ * \var ipa_control_info_entry::required
+ * Boolean flag that determines if the controls is required or not
* \var ipa_control_info_entry::padding
* Padding bytes (shall be set to 0)
*/
diff --git a/src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp b/src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp
index 24d208ef..b055d14c 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ std::unique_ptr<ControlId> V4L2Device::v4l2ControlId(const v4l2_query_ext_ctrl &
const std::string name(static_cast<const char *>(ctrl.name), len);
const ControlType type = v4l2CtrlType(ctrl.type);
- return std::make_unique<ControlId>(ctrl.id, name, type);
+ return std::make_unique<ControlId>(ctrl.id, name, type, false);
}
/**
diff --git a/utils/gen-controls.py b/utils/gen-controls.py
index 6cd5e362..1e997708 100755
--- a/utils/gen-controls.py
+++ b/utils/gen-controls.py
@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ class Control(object):
else:
return f"Span<const {typ}>"
+ @property
+ def required(self):
+ """Is the control required"""
+ return self.__data.get('required')
+
def snake_case(s):
return ''.join([c.isupper() and ('_' + c) or c for c in s]).strip('_')
@@ -133,7 +138,7 @@ ${description}''')
* \\var ${name}
${description}
*/''')
- def_template = string.Template('extern const Control<${type}> ${name}(${id_name}, "${name}");')
+ def_template = string.Template('extern const Control<${type}> ${name}(${id_name}, "${name}", ${required});')
enum_values_doc = string.Template('''/**
* \\var ${name}Values
* \\brief List of all $name supported values
@@ -158,6 +163,7 @@ ${description}
'type': ctrl.type,
'description': format_description(ctrl.description),
'id_name': id_name,
+ 'required': "true" if ctrl.required else "false"
}
target_doc = ctrls_doc[vendor]