[libcamera-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Introduce Pipeline configuration preference for IPU3
Kieran Bingham
kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com
Tue Jan 31 12:34:51 CET 2023
Quoting Hanlin Chen via libcamera-devel (2023-01-07 12:30:43)
> Hi Naushir,
>
> Thanks for reaching out.
> In fact, I have no preference either way, as long as we can get the
> config file for the pipeline handler :)
It looks like I'm going to merge at least the core support for pipeline
configuration files from Naush's series quite soon.
> Just that ChromeOS usually does not use environment variables to
> define config files.
> If the helper function PipelineHandler::configurationFile() can have a
> default path, maybe only for the ChromeOS builds, that would be good
> enough for me.
I think I would like to see a 'core' libcamera configuration file, with
a well defined path that can set anything that we currently set by
environment variable.
--
Kieran
> Please don't hesitate to continue your changes. I will follow up when
> I get cycles to update my series :P
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 6:28 PM Naushir Patuck <naush at raspberrypi.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Han-Lin,
> >
> > I realise this replay might be very (very) late now :-) However, I have been
> > working on something very similar to this work for the Raspberry Pi pipeline
> > handler: https://patchwork.libcamera.org/project/libcamera/list/?series=3659.
> > I just wanted to reach out to see if there is any common ground between both our
> > patch series that would help us both.
> >
> > Having briefly looked through your series, I think the key difference is how we
> > provide the config file to the respective pipeline handlers. I've opted for a
> > simpler approach of using an environment variable to provide a filename to the
> > pipeline handler. There is a helper function PipelineHandler::configurationFile()
> > that will attempt to locate the file from either the system install path, or
> > the source directory. It's up to the respective pipeline handler to parse the
> > file and interpret the parameters as required.
> >
> > Is this approach something you can make use of for your series, replacing the
> > "options" mechanism that you have implemented? As always, feel free to ask any
> > questions if you have them.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Naush
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 07:19, Han-Lin Chen <hanlinchen at chromium.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> This patch series is to introduce the pipeline configuration preference
> >> for IPU3. Before the series, IPU3 calculates the ImgU configuration
> >> based on the algorithm from Intel:
> >> https://github.com/intel/intel-ipu3-pipecfg
> >>
> >> However, IPU3 seems not well defined with the limitation on ImgU and
> >> leading to configuration failure in some cases. See:
> >> https://bugs.libcamera.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67
> >>
> >> Due to this, on ChromeOS, Intel made manual adjusts on the validated
> >> setting for each camera module. The patch series is to introduce the
> >> feature for IPU3, and possibly other platforms with similar issues.
> >>
> >> The patch 1-2 is to introduce Option control for user to enable features
> >> which need to be selected before querying capabilities of a camera.
> >>
> >> The patch 3 Adds helper class to wrap libyaml for easier reading yaml
> >> files.
> >>
> >> The patch 4-9 Supports the Pipeline configuration preference of IPU3 and
> >> default to be enabled on ChromeOS is it's specified on hal_config.yaml.
> >>
> >> Han-Lin Chen (9):
> >> libcamera: Introduce option to customize behavior for a camera module
> >> libcamera: Add options() and setOptions() operations to Camera
> >> libcamera: Introduce YamlParser as a helper to parse yaml files
> >> android: camera_hal_config: Use YamlParser to parse android hal config
> >> android: Add pipeline_config_file parameter for camera_hal.yaml
> >> android: Set PipelineConfigFile option if it's supported by the camera
> >> libcamera: ipu3: Add helper class PipeConfigPreference
> >> libcamera: ipu3: Support PipelineConfigFile option
> >> android: Elevate min duration to 30 FPS if it's lower within 2%
> >>
> >> README.rst | 2 +-
> >> include/libcamera/camera.h | 3 +
> >> include/libcamera/geometry.h | 4 +
> >> include/libcamera/internal/camera.h | 2 +
> >> include/libcamera/internal/meson.build | 1 +
> >> include/libcamera/internal/pipeline_handler.h | 2 +
> >> include/libcamera/internal/yaml_parser.h | 82 ++
> >> include/libcamera/ipa/ipa_controls.h | 1 +
> >> include/libcamera/meson.build | 3 +-
> >> include/libcamera/option_ids.h.in | 36 +
> >> src/android/camera_capabilities.cpp | 31 +-
> >> src/android/camera_device.cpp | 19 +
> >> src/android/camera_hal_config.cpp | 344 ++------
> >> src/android/camera_hal_config.h | 1 +
> >> src/android/data/nautilus/camera_hal.yaml | 2 +
> >> src/android/data/nautilus/imx258.yaml | 248 ++++++
> >> src/android/data/soraka/camera_hal.yaml | 2 +
> >> src/android/data/soraka/ov13858.yaml | 236 ++++++
> >> src/android/data/soraka/ov5670.yaml | 242 ++++++
> >> src/libcamera/camera.cpp | 59 ++
> >> src/libcamera/control_serializer.cpp | 12 +
> >> src/libcamera/geometry.cpp | 20 +
> >> src/libcamera/meson.build | 3 +
> >> src/libcamera/option_ids.cpp.in | 58 ++
> >> src/libcamera/option_ids.yaml | 16 +
> >> src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/ipu3.cpp | 215 ++++-
> >> src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/meson.build | 1 +
> >> .../pipeline/ipu3/pipe_config_pref.cpp | 285 +++++++
> >> .../pipeline/ipu3/pipe_config_pref.h | 80 ++
> >> src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp | 26 +
> >> src/libcamera/yaml_parser.cpp | 796 ++++++++++++++++++
> >> 31 files changed, 2563 insertions(+), 269 deletions(-)
> >> create mode 100644 include/libcamera/internal/yaml_parser.h
> >> create mode 100644 include/libcamera/option_ids.h.in
> >> create mode 100644 src/android/data/nautilus/imx258.yaml
> >> create mode 100644 src/android/data/soraka/ov13858.yaml
> >> create mode 100644 src/android/data/soraka/ov5670.yaml
> >> create mode 100644 src/libcamera/option_ids.cpp.in
> >> create mode 100644 src/libcamera/option_ids.yaml
> >> create mode 100644 src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/pipe_config_pref.cpp
> >> create mode 100644 src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/pipe_config_pref.h
> >> create mode 100644 src/libcamera/yaml_parser.cpp
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.35.0.263.gb82422642f-goog
> >>
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