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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
89Optional endpoint properties
90----------------------------
91
92- remote-endpoint: phandle to an 'endpoint' subnode of a remote device node.
93- slave-mode: a boolean property indicating that the link is run in slave mode.
94  The default when this property is not specified is master mode. In the slave
95  mode horizontal and vertical synchronization signals are provided to the
96  slave device (data source) by the master device (data sink). In the master
97  mode the data source device is also the source of the synchronization signals.
98- bus-type: data bus type. Possible values are:
99  0 - autodetect based on other properties (MIPI CSI-2 D-PHY, parallel or Bt656)
100  1 - MIPI CSI-2 C-PHY
101  2 - MIPI CSI1
102  3 - CCP2
103- bus-width: number of data lines actively used, valid for the parallel busses.
104- data-shift: on the parallel data busses, if bus-width is used to specify the
105  number of data lines, data-shift can be used to specify which data lines are
106  used, e.g. "bus-width=<8>; data-shift=<2>;" means, that lines 9:2 are used.
107- hsync-active: active state of the HSYNC signal, 0/1 for LOW/HIGH respectively.
108- vsync-active: active state of the VSYNC signal, 0/1 for LOW/HIGH respectively.
109  Note, that if HSYNC and VSYNC polarities are not specified, embedded
110  synchronization may be required, where supported.
111- data-active: similar to HSYNC and VSYNC, specifies data line polarity.
112- field-even-active: field signal level during the even field data transmission.
113- pclk-sample: sample data on rising (1) or falling (0) edge of the pixel clock
114  signal.
115- sync-on-green-active: active state of Sync-on-green (SoG) signal, 0/1 for
116  LOW/HIGH respectively.
117- data-lanes: an array of physical data lane indexes. Position of an entry
118  determines the logical lane number, while the value of an entry indicates
119  physical lane, e.g. for 2-lane MIPI CSI-2 bus we could have
120  "data-lanes = <1 2>;", assuming the clock lane is on hardware lane 0.
121  If the hardware does not support lane reordering, monotonically
122  incremented values shall be used from 0 or 1 onwards, depending on
123  whether or not there is also a clock lane. This property is valid for
124  serial busses only (e.g. MIPI CSI-2).
125- clock-lanes: an array of physical clock lane indexes. Position of an entry
126  determines the logical lane number, while the value of an entry indicates
127  physical lane, e.g. for a MIPI CSI-2 bus we could have "clock-lanes = <0>;",
128  which places the clock lane on hardware lane 0. This property is valid for
129  serial busses only (e.g. MIPI CSI-2). Note that for the MIPI CSI-2 bus this
130  array contains only one entry.
131- clock-noncontinuous: a boolean property to allow MIPI CSI-2 non-continuous
132  clock mode.
133- link-frequencies: Allowed data bus frequencies. For MIPI CSI-2, for
134  instance, this is the actual frequency of the bus, not bits per clock per
135  lane value. An array of 64-bit unsigned integers.
136- lane-polarities: an array of polarities of the lanes starting from the clock
137  lane and followed by the data lanes in the same order as in data-lanes.
138  Valid values are 0 (normal) and 1 (inverted). The length of the array
139  should be the combined length of data-lanes and clock-lanes properties.
140  If the lane-polarities property is omitted, the value must be interpreted
141  as 0 (normal). This property is valid for serial busses only.
142- strobe: Whether the clock signal is used as clock (0) or strobe (1). Used
143  with CCP2, for instance.
144
145Example
146-------
147
148The example snippet below describes two data pipelines.  ov772x and imx074 are
149camera sensors with a parallel and serial (MIPI CSI-2) video bus respectively.
150Both sensors are on the I2C control bus corresponding to the i2c0 controller
151node.  ov772x sensor is linked directly to the ceu0 video host interface.
152imx074 is linked to ceu0 through the MIPI CSI-2 receiver (csi2). ceu0 has a
153(single) DMA engine writing captured data to memory.  ceu0 node has a single
154'port' node which may indicate that at any time only one of the following data
155pipelines can be active: ov772x -> ceu0 or imx074 -> csi2 -> ceu0.
156
157	ceu0: ceu@fe910000 {
158		compatible = "renesas,sh-mobile-ceu";
159		reg = <0xfe910000 0xa0>;
160		interrupts = <0x880>;
161
162		mclk: master_clock {
163			compatible = "renesas,ceu-clock";
164			#clock-cells = <1>;
165			clock-frequency = <50000000>;	/* Max clock frequency */
166			clock-output-names = "mclk";
167		};
168
169		port {
170			#address-cells = <1>;
171			#size-cells = <0>;
172
173			/* Parallel bus endpoint */
174			ceu0_1: endpoint@1 {
175				reg = <1>;		/* Local endpoint # */
176				remote = <&ov772x_1_1>;	/* Remote phandle */
177				bus-width = <8>;	/* Used data lines */
178				data-shift = <2>;	/* Lines 9:2 are used */
179
180				/* If hsync-active/vsync-active are missing,
181				   embedded BT.656 sync is used */
182				hsync-active = <0>;	/* Active low */
183				vsync-active = <0>;	/* Active low */
184				data-active = <1>;	/* Active high */
185				pclk-sample = <1>;	/* Rising */
186			};
187
188			/* MIPI CSI-2 bus endpoint */
189			ceu0_0: endpoint@0 {
190				reg = <0>;
191				remote = <&csi2_2>;
192			};
193		};
194	};
195
196	i2c0: i2c@fff20000 {
197		...
198		ov772x_1: camera@21 {
199			compatible = "ovti,ov772x";
200			reg = <0x21>;
201			vddio-supply = <&regulator1>;
202			vddcore-supply = <&regulator2>;
203
204			clock-frequency = <20000000>;
205			clocks = <&mclk 0>;
206			clock-names = "xclk";
207
208			port {
209				/* With 1 endpoint per port no need for addresses. */
210				ov772x_1_1: endpoint {
211					bus-width = <8>;
212					remote-endpoint = <&ceu0_1>;
213					hsync-active = <1>;
214					vsync-active = <0>; /* Who came up with an
215							       inverter here ?... */
216					data-active = <1>;
217					pclk-sample = <1>;
218				};
219			};
220		};
221
222		imx074: camera@1a {
223			compatible = "sony,imx074";
224			reg = <0x1a>;
225			vddio-supply = <&regulator1>;
226			vddcore-supply = <&regulator2>;
227
228			clock-frequency = <30000000>;	/* Shared clock with ov772x_1 */
229			clocks = <&mclk 0>;
230			clock-names = "sysclk";		/* Assuming this is the
231							   name in the datasheet */
232			port {
233				imx074_1: endpoint {
234					clock-lanes = <0>;
235					data-lanes = <1 2>;
236					remote-endpoint = <&csi2_1>;
237				};
238			};
239		};
240	};
241
242	csi2: csi2@ffc90000 {
243		compatible = "renesas,sh-mobile-csi2";
244		reg = <0xffc90000 0x1000>;
245		interrupts = <0x17a0>;
246		#address-cells = <1>;
247		#size-cells = <0>;
248
249		port@1 {
250			compatible = "renesas,csi2c";	/* One of CSI2I and CSI2C. */
251			reg = <1>;			/* CSI-2 PHY #1 of 2: PHY_S,
252							   PHY_M has port address 0,
253							   is unused. */
254			csi2_1: endpoint {
255				clock-lanes = <0>;
256				data-lanes = <2 1>;
257				remote-endpoint = <&imx074_1>;
258			};
259		};
260		port@2 {
261			reg = <2>;			/* port 2: link to the CEU */
262
263			csi2_2: endpoint {
264				remote-endpoint = <&ceu0_0>;
265			};
266		};
267	};
268