[PATCH 3/6] ipa: rpi: Add a HW property to determine if the data buffer is strided

David Plowman david.plowman at raspberrypi.com
Fri Dec 13 11:11:52 CET 2024


Hi Naush

Thanks for the patch.

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 at 09:46, Naushir Patuck <naush at raspberrypi.com> wrote:
>
> This property (cfeDataBufferStrided) indicates if the CSI-2 hardware
> writes to the embedded/metadata buffer directly, or if it treats the
> buffer like an image buffer and strides the metadata lines.
>
> Unicam write this buffer strided, while the PiSP Frontend writes to it

s/write/writes/

> directly. This information will be relevant to data parsers in the
> helpers where the data is structured in lines.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naushir Patuck <naush at raspberrypi.com>
> ---
>  src/ipa/rpi/controller/controller.cpp | 2 ++
>  src/ipa/rpi/controller/controller.h   | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/ipa/rpi/controller/controller.cpp b/src/ipa/rpi/controller/controller.cpp
> index e0131018e7b2..3bce88b9281e 100644
> --- a/src/ipa/rpi/controller/controller.cpp
> +++ b/src/ipa/rpi/controller/controller.cpp
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ static const std::map<std::string, Controller::HardwareConfig> HardwareConfigMap
>                         .pipelineWidth = 13,
>                         .statsInline = false,
>                         .minPixelProcessingTime = 0s,
> +                       .cfeDataBufferStrided = true,
>                 }
>         },
>         {
> @@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ static const std::map<std::string, Controller::HardwareConfig> HardwareConfigMap
>                          * frames wider than ~16,000 pixels.
>                          */
>                         .minPixelProcessingTime = 1.0us / 380,
> +                       .cfeDataBufferStrided = false,
>                 }
>         },
>  };
> diff --git a/src/ipa/rpi/controller/controller.h b/src/ipa/rpi/controller/controller.h
> index eff520bd61de..64f93f414524 100644
> --- a/src/ipa/rpi/controller/controller.h
> +++ b/src/ipa/rpi/controller/controller.h
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ public:
>                 unsigned int pipelineWidth;
>                 bool statsInline;
>                 libcamera::utils::Duration minPixelProcessingTime;
> +               bool cfeDataBufferStrided;

I suppose I feel ever so slightly strange seeing "cfe" in a
non-PiSP-specific data structure, but honestly, I'm not bothered!

Reviewed-by: David Plowman <david.plowman at raspberrypi.com>

Thanks
David

>         };
>
>         Controller();
> --
> 2.43.0
>


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