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2023-01-30documentation: sensor_drivers: Document H/V flipJacopo Mondi
Briefly document the optional requirement support for H/V flip controls. Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: David Plowman <david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>
2022-11-23libcamera: Move IPA sensor controls validation to CameraSensorJacopo Mondi
The CameraSensor class validates that the sensor driver in use supports the controls required for IPA modules to work correctly. For in-tree IPA modules, whose pipeline handlers already use CameraSensor there's no need to validate such controls again. Remove controls validation from the IPU3 and RkISP1 IPA modules and rely on CameraSensor doing that at initialization time. The list of mandatory controls is expanded to add V4L2_CID_ANALOGUE_GAIN without which IPA modules cannot function. The new requirement only applies to RAW sensors, platforms like UVC and Simple are not impacted by this change. While at it, expand the sensor driver requirements documentation to include V4L2_ANALOGUE_GAIN in the list of mandatory controls a sensor driver has to support. Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org> Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
2021-03-19Documentation: sensor-driver: Fix links to V4L2 documentationNícolas F. R. A. Prado
Fix some links to the V4L2 documentation. The first one is indeed pointing to the wrong page. The second one has a highlight embedded, so not necessarily wrong, but not needed, so clean it up as well. Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@posteo.net> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
2021-03-19Documentation: Fix typos and wrong rST syntax for literalsNícolas F. R. A. Prado
Fix some typos and some literals using ` instead of ``. Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@posteo.net> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
2021-02-05libcamera: camera_sensor: Restrict sensor info to raw sensorsLaurent Pinchart
YUV sensors don't provide the necessary information to fill CameraSensorInfo, as they include an ISP and provide a higher-level API that doesn't always expose low-level information. The CameraSensor class makes low-level V4L2 controls mandatory for all sensors, which prevents usage of YUV sensors with the simple pipeline handler. Make CameraSensor::sensorInfo() available for raw sensors only. This won't introduce any regression in pipeline handlers that currently use the sensorInfo() function as they all operate with raw sensors, and won't be a limitation for the simple pipeline handler as well as it doesn't use sensor info. If part of the sensor info (such as the active pixel array size for instance) becomes useful to expose for YUV sensors in the future, the sensorInfo() function can be extended to report that information only and skip data that is only available for raw sensors. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
2021-02-05libcamera: camera_sensor: Make VBLANK mandatoryJacopo Mondi
Add the V4L2_CID_VBLANK control to the list of mandatory controls the sensor driver has to report and document the new requirement. The vertical blanking control is used to calculate the frame duration. Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org> Signed-off-by: Naushir Patuck <naush@raspberrypi.com> Reviewed-by: Naushir Patuck <naush@raspberrypi.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
2021-01-25libcamera: camera_sensor: Make V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE mandatoryJacopo Mondi
Add the V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE control to the list of mandatory controls the sensor driver has to report and document this new requirement. While at it, re-sort the mandatory V4L2 controls in alphabetical order in the CameraSensor class and remove the above comment as the usage of the controls is better reported in the documentation. Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
2021-01-20Documentation: sensor-driver: Correct camera rotationJacopo Mondi
The description of the V4L2_CID_CAMERA_SENSOR_ROTATION control usage wrongly mentioned the camera "orientation" while it actually reports the camera rotation. Fix it by using the right term. Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com> Reported-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
2021-01-20Documentation: sensor-drivers: Reorder introductionJacopo Mondi
Reorder the introductory section of the sensor driver requirements document to match the expected English language syntax. Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com> Suggested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
2021-01-18libcamera: Document sensor driver requirementsJacopo Mondi
Document the feature an image sensor driver has to provide to be fully libcamera-compliant. Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>