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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 18:34:32 +0800
From: "Du, Bin" <bin.du@....com>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Cc: mchehab@...nel.org, hverkuil@...all.nl, bryan.odonoghue@...aro.org,
sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com, prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@...renesas.com,
linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
sultan@...neltoast.com, pratap.nirujogi@....com, benjamin.chan@....com,
king.li@....com, gjorgji.rosikopulos@....com, Phil.Jawich@....com,
Dominic.Antony@....com, mario.limonciello@....com, richard.gong@....com,
anson.tsao@....com, Svetoslav Stoilov <Svetoslav.Stoilov@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] Documentation: add documentation of AMD isp 4
driver
Thanks Laurent Pinchart for your careful review.
On 9/3/2025 6:04 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 06:08:11PM +0800, Bin Du wrote:
>> Add documentation for AMD isp 4 and describe the main components
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Svetoslav Stoilov <Svetoslav.Stoilov@....com>
>> Signed-off-by: Svetoslav Stoilov <Svetoslav.Stoilov@....com>
>> Signed-off-by: Bin Du <Bin.Du@....com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4-1.rst | 66 +++++++++++++++++++
>> Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4.dot | 8 +++
>> .../admin-guide/media/v4l-drivers.rst | 1 +
>> MAINTAINERS | 2 +
>> 4 files changed, 77 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4-1.rst
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4.dot
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4-1.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4-1.rst
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..a5ed78912d0f
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4-1.rst
>> @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
>> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> +
>> +.. include:: <isonum.txt>
>> +
>> +====================================
>> +AMD Image Signal Processor (amdisp4)
>> +====================================
>> +
>> +Introduction
>> +============
>> +
>> +This file documents the driver for the AMD ISP4 that is part of
>> +AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 SoC.
>> +
>> +The driver is located under drivers/media/platform/amd/isp4 and uses
>> +the Media-Controller API.
>> +
>> +Topology
>> +========
>> +
>> +.. _amdisp4_topology_graph:
>> +
>> +.. kernel-figure:: amdisp4.dot
>> + :alt: Diagram of the media pipeline topology
>> + :align: center
>> +
>> +
>> +
>> +The driver has 1 sub-device:
>> +
>> +- isp: used to resize and process bayer raw frames in to yuv.
>> +
>> +The driver has 1 video device:
>> +
>> +- capture video device: capture device for retrieving images.
>> +
>> +
>> + - ISP4 Image Signal Processing Subdevice Node
>> +
>> +-----------------------------------------------
>> +
>> +The isp4 is represented as a single V4L2 subdev, the sub-device does not
>> +provide interface to the user space. The sub-device is connected to one video node
>> +(isp4_capture) with immutable active link. The isp entity is connected
>> +to sensor pad 0 and receives the frames using CSI-2 protocol. The sub-device is
>> +also responsible to configure CSI2-2 receiver.
>> +The sub-device processes bayer raw data from the connected sensor and output
>> +them to different YUV formats. The isp also has scaling capabilities.
>> +
>> + - isp4_capture - Frames Capture Video Node
>> +
>> +--------------------------------------------
>> +
>> +Isp4_capture is a capture device to capture frames to memory.
>> +This entity is the DMA engine that write the frames to memory.
>> +The entity is connected to isp4 sub-device.
>> +
>> +Capturing Video Frames Example
>> +==============================
>> +
>> +.. code-block:: bash
>> +
>> + # set the links
>> +
>> + # start streaming:
>> + v4l2-ctl "-d" "/dev/video0" "--set-fmt-video=width=1920,height=1080,pixelformat=NV12" "--stream-mmap" "--stream-count=10"
>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4.dot b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4.dot
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..a4c2f0cceb30
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4.dot
>> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
>> +digraph board {
>> + rankdir=TB
>> + n00000001 [label="{{<port0> 0} | amd isp4\n | {<port1> 1}}", shape=Mrecord, style=filled, fillcolor=green]
>> + n00000001:port1 -> n00000004 [style=bold]
>> + n00000004 [label="Preview\n/dev/video0", shape=box, style=filled, fillcolor=yellow]
>> + n0000000a [label="{{} | ov05c10 22-0010\n/dev/v4l-subdev0 | {<port0> 0}}", shape=Mrecord, style=filled, fillcolor=green]
>
> Does the driver still have a subdev for the sensor, or is that a
> leftover ? Looking at the source code, I don't see where the sensor
> would be handled.
>
Yes, you are definitely correct, no sensor subdev anymore. My fault, i
forgot to sync the document to the latest one, will update in the next
version, really sorry for that.
>> + n0000000a:port0 -> n00000001:port0 [style=bold]
>> +}
>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/v4l-drivers.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/v4l-drivers.rst
>> index 3bac5165b134..6027416e5373 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/v4l-drivers.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/v4l-drivers.rst
>> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Video4Linux (V4L) driver-specific documentation
>> .. toctree::
>> :maxdepth: 2
>>
>> + amdisp4-1
>> bttv
>> c3-isp
>> cafe_ccic
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 7724620896e7..72ef7c77d881 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -1139,6 +1139,8 @@ M: Nirujogi Pratap <pratap.nirujogi@....com>
>> L: linux-media@...r.kernel.org
>> S: Maintained
>> T: git git://linuxtv.org/media.git
>> +F: Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4-1.rst
>> +F: Documentation/admin-guide/media/amdisp4.dot
>> F: drivers/media/platform/amd/Kconfig
>> F: drivers/media/platform/amd/Makefile
>> F: drivers/media/platform/amd/isp4/Kconfig
>
--
Regards,
Bin
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