[Gta04-owner] [Letux-kernel] IP connection to GTA04 to Mac (El Capitan) over USB

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Andrey,

> Am 09.08.2016 um 12:45 schrieb Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin at fastmail.com>:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 08:55:53AM +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> This allows me to continue to work on the camera driver where I wasn't able
>> to install the v4l-utils package to control the ISP (Image Signal Processor)
>> of the DM3730 SoC.
>> 
>> Now the tools are sharp again. Let's start looking into the camera driver...
> 
> Please keep me posted about any issues you have with it. (Or give links
> to existing tickets.)

you mean the camera driver?

Well, here are all links:

http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/issues/467/
http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/work/hns/video/ov9655
http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=blob;f=Letux/root/camera-demo;h=2858acac4fad5b684a0ec3a899a0c7b706f64292;hb=07d63901af40477eaa958e18ff0ae9da4c8e03fb
http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=blob;f=Letux/root/capture-demo;h=e6c86844f04ac668fda6ed34006c533fd1050f11;hb=07d63901af40477eaa958e18ff0ae9da4c8e03fb
http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=blob;f=Letux/root/capture.c;h=c2a3bc9d176a78850be52afb8aca1eacfab76392;hb=07d63901af40477eaa958e18ff0ae9da4c8e03fb
http://electricstuff.co.uk/OV9655-datasheet-annotated.pdf

The chip is now recognised and probed successfully. This means the DT setup for the I2C command interface is ok.

What has to be done:
a) check if the data (video stream) interface setup is correct (does DT choose the correct interface and send out the right clock frequency)
but it is likely so since the camera chip needs the system clock to respond on I2C. But there could be pinmux issues.

b) which registers have to be programmed in which way through the v4l2 ioctls...
We have a very old (working) driver and the ov9650 driver to mix&merge ideas.
Probably a very basic and static setup could already work and leave gamma correction, pan, crop, auto-gain, resolution switching for further improvements.

c) I do not know if the mediactl setup is still matching the kernel driver's expectations

But for all this a developer should have a device with built-in camera for being able
to make experiments...

BR,
Nikolaus