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1Common bindings for video receiver and transmitter interfaces
2
3General concept
4---------------
5
6Video data pipelines usually consist of external devices, e.g. camera sensors,
7controlled over an I2C, SPI or UART bus, and SoC internal IP blocks, including
8video DMA engines and video data processors.
9
10SoC internal blocks are described by DT nodes, placed similarly to other SoC
11blocks.  External devices are represented as child nodes of their respective
12bus controller nodes, e.g. I2C.
13
14Data interfaces on all video devices are described by their child 'port' nodes.
15Configuration of a port depends on other devices participating in the data
16transfer and is described by 'endpoint' subnodes.
17
18device {
19	...
20	ports {
21		#address-cells = <1>;
22		#size-cells = <0>;
23
24		port@0 {
25			...
26			endpoint@0 { ... };
27			endpoint@1 { ... };
28		};
29		port@1 { ... };
30	};
31};
32
33If a port can be configured to work with more than one remote device on the same
34bus, an 'endpoint' child node must be provided for each of them.  If more than
35one port is present in a device node or there is more than one endpoint at a
36port, or port node needs to be associated with a selected hardware interface,
37a common scheme using '#address-cells', '#size-cells' and 'reg' properties is
38used.
39
40All 'port' nodes can be grouped under optional 'ports' node, which allows to
41specify #address-cells, #size-cells properties independently for the 'port'
42and 'endpoint' nodes and any child device nodes a device might have.
43
44Two 'endpoint' nodes are linked with each other through their 'remote-endpoint'
45phandles.  An endpoint subnode of a device contains all properties needed for
46configuration of this device for data exchange with other device.  In most
47cases properties at the peer 'endpoint' nodes will be identical, however they
48might need to be different when there is any signal modifications on the bus
49between two devices, e.g. there are logic signal inverters on the lines.
50
51It is allowed for multiple endpoints at a port to be active simultaneously,
52where supported by a device.  For example, in case where a data interface of
53a device is partitioned into multiple data busses, e.g. 16-bit input port
54divided into two separate ITU-R BT.656 8-bit busses.  In such case bus-width
55and data-shift properties can be used to assign physical data lines to each
56endpoint node (logical bus).
57
58Documenting bindings for devices
59--------------------------------
60
61All required and optional bindings the device supports shall be explicitly
62documented in device DT binding documentation. This also includes port and
63endpoint nodes for the device, including unit-addresses and reg properties where
64relevant.
65
66Please also see Documentation/devicetree/bindings/graph.txt .
67
68Required properties
69-------------------
70
71If there is more than one 'port' or more than one 'endpoint' node or 'reg'
72property is present in port and/or endpoint nodes the following properties
73are required in a relevant parent node:
74
75 - #address-cells : number of cells required to define port/endpoint
76		    identifier, should be 1.
77 - #size-cells    : should be zero.
78
79
80Optional properties
81-------------------
82
83- flash-leds: An array of phandles, each referring to a flash LED, a sub-node
84  of the LED driver device node.
85
86- lens-focus: A phandle to the node of the focus lens controller.
87
88- rotation: The camera rotation is expressed as the angular difference in
89  degrees between two reference systems, one relative to the camera module, and
90  one defined on the external world scene to be captured when projected on the
91  image sensor pixel array.
92
93  A camera sensor has a 2-dimensional reference system 'Rc' defined by
94  its pixel array read-out order. The origin is set to the first pixel
95  being read out, the X-axis points along the column read-out direction
96  towards the last columns, and the Y-axis along the row read-out
97  direction towards the last row.
98
99  A typical example for a sensor with a 2592x1944 pixel array matrix
100  observed from the front is:
101
102              2591       X-axis          0
103                <------------------------+ 0
104                .......... ... ..........!
105                .......... ... ..........! Y-axis
106                           ...           !
107                .......... ... ..........!
108                .......... ... ..........! 1943
109                                         V
110
111  The external world scene reference system 'Rs' is a 2-dimensional
112  reference system on the focal plane of the camera module. The origin is
113  placed on the top-left corner of the visible scene, the X-axis points
114  towards the right, and the Y-axis points towards the bottom of the
115  scene. The top, bottom, left and right directions are intentionally not
116  defined and depend on the environment in which the camera is used.
117
118  A typical example of a (very common) picture of a shark swimming from
119  left to right, as seen from the camera, is:
120
121               0               X-axis
122             0 +------------------------------------->
123               !
124               !
125               !
126               !           |\____)\___
127               !           ) _____  __`<
128               !           |/     )/
129               !
130               !
131               !
132               V
133             Y-axis
134
135  with the reference system 'Rs' placed on the camera focal plane:
136
137                                  ¸.·˙!
138                              ¸.·˙    !
139                  _       ¸.·˙        !
140               +-/ \-+¸.·˙            !
141               | (o) |                ! Camera focal plane
142               +-----+˙·.¸            !
143                          ˙·.¸        !
144                              ˙·.¸    !
145                                  ˙·.¸!
146
147  When projected on the sensor's pixel array, the image and the associated
148  reference system 'Rs' are typically (but not always) inverted, due to
149  the camera module's lens optical inversion effect.
150
151  Assuming the above represented scene of the swimming shark, the lens
152  inversion projects the scene and its reference system onto the sensor
153  pixel array, seen from the front of the camera sensor, as follows:
154
155            Y-axis
156               ^
157               !
158               !
159               !
160               !            |\_____)\__
161               !            ) ____  ___.<
162               !            |/    )/
163               !
164               !
165               !
166             0 +------------------------------------->
167               0               X-axis
168
169  Note the shark being upside-down.
170
171  The resulting projected reference system is named 'Rp'.
172
173  The camera rotation property is then defined as the angular difference
174  in the counter-clockwise direction between the camera reference system
175  'Rc' and the projected scene reference system 'Rp'. It is expressed in
176  degrees as a number in the range [0, 360[.
177
178  Examples
179
180  0 degrees camera rotation:
181
182
183                    Y-Rp
184                     ^
185              Y-Rc   !
186               ^     !
187               !     !
188               !     !
189               !     !
190               !     !
191               !     !
192               !     !
193               !     !
194               !   0 +------------------------------------->
195               !     0               X-Rp
196             0 +------------------------------------->
197               0               X-Rc
198
199
200                                X-Rc                0
201               <------------------------------------+ 0
202                           X-Rp                 0   !
203           <------------------------------------+ 0 !
204                                                !   !
205                                                !   !
206                                                !   !
207                                                !   !
208                                                !   !
209                                                !   !
210                                                !   !
211                                                !   V
212                                                !  Y-Rc
213                                                V
214                                               Y-Rp
215
216  90 degrees camera rotation:
217
218               0        Y-Rc
219             0 +-------------------->
220               !   Y-Rp
221               !    ^
222               !    !
223               !    !
224               !    !
225               !    !
226               !    !
227               !    !
228               !    !
229               !    !
230               !    !
231               !  0 +------------------------------------->
232               !    0              X-Rp
233               !
234               !
235               !
236               !
237               V
238              X-Rc
239
240  180 degrees camera rotation:
241
242                                            0
243       <------------------------------------+ 0
244                        X-Rc                !
245              Y-Rp                          !
246               ^                            !
247               !                            !
248               !                            !
249               !                            !
250               !                            !
251               !                            !
252               !                            !
253               !                            V
254               !                           Y-Rc
255             0 +------------------------------------->
256               0              X-Rp
257
258  270 degrees camera rotation:
259
260               0        Y-Rc
261             0 +-------------------->
262               !                                        0
263               !    <-----------------------------------+ 0
264               !                    X-Rp                !
265               !                                        !
266               !                                        !
267               !                                        !
268               !                                        !
269               !                                        !
270               !                                        !
271               !                                        !
272               !                                        !
273               !                                        V
274               !                                       Y-Rp
275               !
276               !
277               !
278               !
279               V
280              X-Rc
281
282
283  Example one - Webcam
284
285  A camera module installed on the user facing part of a laptop screen
286  casing used for video calls. The captured images are meant to be
287  displayed in landscape mode (width > height) on the laptop screen.
288
289  The camera is typically mounted upside-down to compensate the lens
290  optical inversion effect:
291
292                    Y-Rp
293              Y-Rc   ^
294               ^     !
295               !     !
296               !     !       |\_____)\__
297               !     !       ) ____  ___.<
298               !     !       |/    )/
299               !     !
300               !     !
301               !     !
302               !   0 +------------------------------------->
303               !     0           X-Rp
304             0 +------------------------------------->
305               0            X-Rc
306
307  The two reference systems are aligned, the resulting camera rotation is
308  0 degrees, no rotation correction needs to be applied to the resulting
309  image once captured to memory buffers to correctly display it to users:
310
311               +--------------------------------------+
312               !                                      !
313               !                                      !
314               !                                      !
315               !             |\____)\___              !
316               !             ) _____  __`<            !
317               !             |/     )/                !
318               !                                      !
319               !                                      !
320               !                                      !
321               +--------------------------------------+
322
323  If the camera sensor is not mounted upside-down to compensate for the
324  lens optical inversion, the two reference systems will not be aligned,
325  with 'Rp' being rotated 180 degrees relatively to 'Rc':
326
327
328                        X-Rc                0
329       <------------------------------------+ 0
330                                            !
331              Y-Rp                          !
332               ^                            !
333               !                            !
334               !       |\_____)\__          !
335               !       ) ____  ___.<        !
336               !       |/    )/             !
337               !                            !
338               !                            !
339               !                            V
340               !                           Y-Rc
341             0 +------------------------------------->
342               0            X-Rp
343
344  The image once captured to memory will then be rotated by 180 degrees:
345
346               +--------------------------------------+
347               !                                      !
348               !                                      !
349               !                                      !
350               !              __/(_____/|             !
351               !            >.___  ____ (             !
352               !                 \(    \|             !
353               !                                      !
354               !                                      !
355               !                                      !
356               +--------------------------------------+
357
358  A software rotation correction of 180 degrees should be applied to
359  correctly display the image:
360
361               +--------------------------------------+
362               !                                      !
363               !                                      !
364               !                                      !
365               !             |\____)\___              !
366               !             ) _____  __`<            !
367               !             |/     )/                !
368               !                                      !
369               !                                      !
370               !                                      !
371               +--------------------------------------+
372
373  Example two - Phone camera
374
375  A camera installed on the back side of a mobile device facing away from
376  the user. The captured images are meant to be displayed in portrait mode
377  (height > width) to match the device screen orientation and the device
378  usage orientation used when taking the picture.
379
380  The camera sensor is typically mounted with its pixel array longer side
381  aligned to the device longer side, upside-down mounted to compensate for
382  the lens optical inversion effect:
383
384               0        Y-Rc
385             0 +-------------------->
386               !   Y-Rp
387               !    ^
388               !    !
389               !    !
390               !    !
391               !    !            |\_____)\__
392               !    !            ) ____  ___.<
393               !    !            |/    )/
394               !    !
395               !    !
396               !    !
397               !  0 +------------------------------------->
398               !    0                X-Rp
399               !
400               !
401               !
402               !
403               V
404              X-Rc
405
406  The two reference systems are not aligned and the 'Rp' reference
407  system is rotated by 90 degrees in the counter-clockwise direction
408  relatively to the 'Rc' reference system.
409
410  The image once captured to memory will be rotated:
411
412               +-------------------------------------+
413               |                 _ _                 |
414               |                \   /                |
415               |                 | |                 |
416               |                 | |                 |
417               |                 |  >                |
418               |                <  |                 |
419               |                 | |                 |
420               |                   .                 |
421               |                  V                  |
422               +-------------------------------------+
423
424  A correction of 90 degrees in counter-clockwise direction has to be
425  applied to correctly display the image in portrait mode on the device
426  screen:
427
428                        +--------------------+
429                        |                    |
430                        |                    |
431                        |                    |
432                        |                    |
433                        |                    |
434                        |                    |
435                        |   |\____)\___      |
436                        |   ) _____  __`<    |
437                        |   |/     )/        |
438                        |                    |
439                        |                    |
440                        |                    |
441                        |                    |
442                        |                    |
443                        +--------------------+
444
445- orientation: The orientation of a device (typically an image sensor or a flash
446  LED) describing its mounting position relative to the usage orientation of the
447  system where the device is installed on.
448  Possible values are:
449  0 - Front. The device is mounted on the front facing side of the system.
450  For mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops the front side is
451  the user facing side.
452  1 - Back. The device is mounted on the back side of the system, which is
453  defined as the opposite side of the front facing one.
454  2 - External. The device is not attached directly to the system but is
455  attached in a way that allows it to move freely.
456
457Optional endpoint properties
458----------------------------
459
460- remote-endpoint: phandle to an 'endpoint' subnode of a remote device node.
461- slave-mode: a boolean property indicating that the link is run in slave mode.
462  The default when this property is not specified is master mode. In the slave
463  mode horizontal and vertical synchronization signals are provided to the
464  slave device (data source) by the master device (data sink). In the master
465  mode the data source device is also the source of the synchronization signals.
466- bus-type: data bus type. Possible values are:
467  1 - MIPI CSI-2 C-PHY
468  2 - MIPI CSI1
469  3 - CCP2
470  4 - MIPI CSI-2 D-PHY
471  5 - Parallel
472  6 - Bt.656
473- bus-width: number of data lines actively used, valid for the parallel busses.
474- data-shift: on the parallel data busses, if bus-width is used to specify the
475  number of data lines, data-shift can be used to specify which data lines are
476  used, e.g. "bus-width=<8>; data-shift=<2>;" means, that lines 9:2 are used.
477- hsync-active: active state of the HSYNC signal, 0/1 for LOW/HIGH respectively.
478- vsync-active: active state of the VSYNC signal, 0/1 for LOW/HIGH respectively.
479  Note, that if HSYNC and VSYNC polarities are not specified, embedded
480  synchronization may be required, where supported.
481- data-active: similar to HSYNC and VSYNC, specifies data line polarity.
482- data-enable-active: similar to HSYNC and VSYNC, specifies the data enable
483  signal polarity.
484- field-even-active: field signal level during the even field data transmission.
485- pclk-sample: sample data on rising (1) or falling (0) edge of the pixel clock
486  signal.
487- sync-on-green-active: active state of Sync-on-green (SoG) signal, 0/1 for
488  LOW/HIGH respectively.
489- data-lanes: an array of physical data lane indexes. Position of an entry
490  determines the logical lane number, while the value of an entry indicates
491  physical lane, e.g. for 2-lane MIPI CSI-2 bus we could have
492  "data-lanes = <1 2>;", assuming the clock lane is on hardware lane 0.
493  If the hardware does not support lane reordering, monotonically
494  incremented values shall be used from 0 or 1 onwards, depending on
495  whether or not there is also a clock lane. This property is valid for
496  serial busses only (e.g. MIPI CSI-2).
497- clock-lanes: an array of physical clock lane indexes. Position of an entry
498  determines the logical lane number, while the value of an entry indicates
499  physical lane, e.g. for a MIPI CSI-2 bus we could have "clock-lanes = <0>;",
500  which places the clock lane on hardware lane 0. This property is valid for
501  serial busses only (e.g. MIPI CSI-2). Note that for the MIPI CSI-2 bus this
502  array contains only one entry.
503- clock-noncontinuous: a boolean property to allow MIPI CSI-2 non-continuous
504  clock mode.
505- link-frequencies: Allowed data bus frequencies. For MIPI CSI-2, for
506  instance, this is the actual frequency of the bus, not bits per clock per
507  lane value. An array of 64-bit unsigned integers.
508- lane-polarities: an array of polarities of the lanes starting from the clock
509  lane and followed by the data lanes in the same order as in data-lanes.
510  Valid values are 0 (normal) and 1 (inverted). The length of the array
511  should be the combined length of data-lanes and clock-lanes properties.
512  If the lane-polarities property is omitted, the value must be interpreted
513  as 0 (normal). This property is valid for serial busses only.
514- strobe: Whether the clock signal is used as clock (0) or strobe (1). Used
515  with CCP2, for instance.
516
517Example
518-------
519
520The example snippet below describes two data pipelines.  ov772x and imx074 are
521camera sensors with a parallel and serial (MIPI CSI-2) video bus respectively.
522Both sensors are on the I2C control bus corresponding to the i2c0 controller
523node.  ov772x sensor is linked directly to the ceu0 video host interface.
524imx074 is linked to ceu0 through the MIPI CSI-2 receiver (csi2). ceu0 has a
525(single) DMA engine writing captured data to memory.  ceu0 node has a single
526'port' node which may indicate that at any time only one of the following data
527pipelines can be active: ov772x -> ceu0 or imx074 -> csi2 -> ceu0.
528
529	ceu0: ceu@fe910000 {
530		compatible = "renesas,sh-mobile-ceu";
531		reg = <0xfe910000 0xa0>;
532		interrupts = <0x880>;
533
534		mclk: master_clock {
535			compatible = "renesas,ceu-clock";
536			#clock-cells = <1>;
537			clock-frequency = <50000000>;	/* Max clock frequency */
538			clock-output-names = "mclk";
539		};
540
541		port {
542			#address-cells = <1>;
543			#size-cells = <0>;
544
545			/* Parallel bus endpoint */
546			ceu0_1: endpoint@1 {
547				reg = <1>;		/* Local endpoint # */
548				remote = <&ov772x_1_1>;	/* Remote phandle */
549				bus-width = <8>;	/* Used data lines */
550				data-shift = <2>;	/* Lines 9:2 are used */
551
552				/* If hsync-active/vsync-active are missing,
553				   embedded BT.656 sync is used */
554				hsync-active = <0>;	/* Active low */
555				vsync-active = <0>;	/* Active low */
556				data-active = <1>;	/* Active high */
557				pclk-sample = <1>;	/* Rising */
558			};
559
560			/* MIPI CSI-2 bus endpoint */
561			ceu0_0: endpoint@0 {
562				reg = <0>;
563				remote = <&csi2_2>;
564			};
565		};
566	};
567
568	i2c0: i2c@fff20000 {
569		...
570		ov772x_1: camera@21 {
571			compatible = "ovti,ov772x";
572			reg = <0x21>;
573			vddio-supply = <&regulator1>;
574			vddcore-supply = <&regulator2>;
575
576			clock-frequency = <20000000>;
577			clocks = <&mclk 0>;
578			clock-names = "xclk";
579
580			port {
581				/* With 1 endpoint per port no need for addresses. */
582				ov772x_1_1: endpoint {
583					bus-width = <8>;
584					remote-endpoint = <&ceu0_1>;
585					hsync-active = <1>;
586					vsync-active = <0>; /* Who came up with an
587							       inverter here ?... */
588					data-active = <1>;
589					pclk-sample = <1>;
590				};
591			};
592		};
593
594		imx074: camera@1a {
595			compatible = "sony,imx074";
596			reg = <0x1a>;
597			vddio-supply = <&regulator1>;
598			vddcore-supply = <&regulator2>;
599
600			clock-frequency = <30000000>;	/* Shared clock with ov772x_1 */
601			clocks = <&mclk 0>;
602			clock-names = "sysclk";		/* Assuming this is the
603							   name in the datasheet */
604			port {
605				imx074_1: endpoint {
606					clock-lanes = <0>;
607					data-lanes = <1 2>;
608					remote-endpoint = <&csi2_1>;
609				};
610			};
611		};
612	};
613
614	csi2: csi2@ffc90000 {
615		compatible = "renesas,sh-mobile-csi2";
616		reg = <0xffc90000 0x1000>;
617		interrupts = <0x17a0>;
618		#address-cells = <1>;
619		#size-cells = <0>;
620
621		port@1 {
622			compatible = "renesas,csi2c";	/* One of CSI2I and CSI2C. */
623			reg = <1>;			/* CSI-2 PHY #1 of 2: PHY_S,
624							   PHY_M has port address 0,
625							   is unused. */
626			csi2_1: endpoint {
627				clock-lanes = <0>;
628				data-lanes = <2 1>;
629				remote-endpoint = <&imx074_1>;
630			};
631		};
632		port@2 {
633			reg = <2>;			/* port 2: link to the CEU */
634
635			csi2_2: endpoint {
636				remote-endpoint = <&ceu0_0>;
637			};
638		};
639	};
640