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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
58
59Required properties
60-------------------
61
62If there is more than one 'port' or more than one 'endpoint' node or 'reg'
63property is present in port and/or endpoint nodes the following properties
64are required in a relevant parent node:
65
66 - #address-cells : number of cells required to define port/endpoint
67		    identifier, should be 1.
68 - #size-cells    : should be zero.
69
70Optional endpoint properties
71----------------------------
72
73- remote-endpoint: phandle to an 'endpoint' subnode of a remote device node.
74- slave-mode: a boolean property indicating that the link is run in slave mode.
75  The default when this property is not specified is master mode. In the slave
76  mode horizontal and vertical synchronization signals are provided to the
77  slave device (data source) by the master device (data sink). In the master
78  mode the data source device is also the source of the synchronization signals.
79- bus-width: number of data lines actively used, valid for the parallel busses.
80- data-shift: on the parallel data busses, if bus-width is used to specify the
81  number of data lines, data-shift can be used to specify which data lines are
82  used, e.g. "bus-width=<8>; data-shift=<2>;" means, that lines 9:2 are used.
83- hsync-active: active state of the HSYNC signal, 0/1 for LOW/HIGH respectively.
84- vsync-active: active state of the VSYNC signal, 0/1 for LOW/HIGH respectively.
85  Note, that if HSYNC and VSYNC polarities are not specified, embedded
86  synchronization may be required, where supported.
87- data-active: similar to HSYNC and VSYNC, specifies data line polarity.
88- field-even-active: field signal level during the even field data transmission.
89- pclk-sample: sample data on rising (1) or falling (0) edge of the pixel clock
90  signal.
91- sync-on-green-active: active state of Sync-on-green (SoG) signal, 0/1 for
92  LOW/HIGH respectively.
93- data-lanes: an array of physical data lane indexes. Position of an entry
94  determines the logical lane number, while the value of an entry indicates
95  physical lane, e.g. for 2-lane MIPI CSI-2 bus we could have
96  "data-lanes = <1 2>;", assuming the clock lane is on hardware lane 0.
97  This property is valid for serial busses only (e.g. MIPI CSI-2).
98- clock-lanes: an array of physical clock lane indexes. Position of an entry
99  determines the logical lane number, while the value of an entry indicates
100  physical lane, e.g. for a MIPI CSI-2 bus we could have "clock-lanes = <0>;",
101  which places the clock lane on hardware lane 0. This property is valid for
102  serial busses only (e.g. MIPI CSI-2). Note that for the MIPI CSI-2 bus this
103  array contains only one entry.
104- clock-noncontinuous: a boolean property to allow MIPI CSI-2 non-continuous
105  clock mode.
106- link-frequencies: Allowed data bus frequencies. For MIPI CSI-2, for
107  instance, this is the actual frequency of the bus, not bits per clock per
108  lane value. An array of 64-bit unsigned integers.
109- lane-polarities: an array of polarities of the lanes starting from the clock
110  lane and followed by the data lanes in the same order as in data-lanes.
111  Valid values are 0 (normal) and 1 (inverted). The length of the array
112  should be the combined length of data-lanes and clock-lanes properties.
113  If the lane-polarities property is omitted, the value must be interpreted
114  as 0 (normal). This property is valid for serial busses only.
115
116
117Example
118-------
119
120The example snippet below describes two data pipelines.  ov772x and imx074 are
121camera sensors with a parallel and serial (MIPI CSI-2) video bus respectively.
122Both sensors are on the I2C control bus corresponding to the i2c0 controller
123node.  ov772x sensor is linked directly to the ceu0 video host interface.
124imx074 is linked to ceu0 through the MIPI CSI-2 receiver (csi2). ceu0 has a
125(single) DMA engine writing captured data to memory.  ceu0 node has a single
126'port' node which may indicate that at any time only one of the following data
127pipelines can be active: ov772x -> ceu0 or imx074 -> csi2 -> ceu0.
128
129	ceu0: ceu@0xfe910000 {
130		compatible = "renesas,sh-mobile-ceu";
131		reg = <0xfe910000 0xa0>;
132		interrupts = <0x880>;
133
134		mclk: master_clock {
135			compatible = "renesas,ceu-clock";
136			#clock-cells = <1>;
137			clock-frequency = <50000000>;	/* Max clock frequency */
138			clock-output-names = "mclk";
139		};
140
141		port {
142			#address-cells = <1>;
143			#size-cells = <0>;
144
145			/* Parallel bus endpoint */
146			ceu0_1: endpoint@1 {
147				reg = <1>;		/* Local endpoint # */
148				remote = <&ov772x_1_1>;	/* Remote phandle */
149				bus-width = <8>;	/* Used data lines */
150				data-shift = <2>;	/* Lines 9:2 are used */
151
152				/* If hsync-active/vsync-active are missing,
153				   embedded BT.656 sync is used */
154				hsync-active = <0>;	/* Active low */
155				vsync-active = <0>;	/* Active low */
156				data-active = <1>;	/* Active high */
157				pclk-sample = <1>;	/* Rising */
158			};
159
160			/* MIPI CSI-2 bus endpoint */
161			ceu0_0: endpoint@0 {
162				reg = <0>;
163				remote = <&csi2_2>;
164			};
165		};
166	};
167
168	i2c0: i2c@0xfff20000 {
169		...
170		ov772x_1: camera@0x21 {
171			compatible = "ovti,ov772x";
172			reg = <0x21>;
173			vddio-supply = <&regulator1>;
174			vddcore-supply = <&regulator2>;
175
176			clock-frequency = <20000000>;
177			clocks = <&mclk 0>;
178			clock-names = "xclk";
179
180			port {
181				/* With 1 endpoint per port no need for addresses. */
182				ov772x_1_1: endpoint {
183					bus-width = <8>;
184					remote-endpoint = <&ceu0_1>;
185					hsync-active = <1>;
186					vsync-active = <0>; /* Who came up with an
187							       inverter here ?... */
188					data-active = <1>;
189					pclk-sample = <1>;
190				};
191			};
192		};
193
194		imx074: camera@0x1a {
195			compatible = "sony,imx074";
196			reg = <0x1a>;
197			vddio-supply = <&regulator1>;
198			vddcore-supply = <&regulator2>;
199
200			clock-frequency = <30000000>;	/* Shared clock with ov772x_1 */
201			clocks = <&mclk 0>;
202			clock-names = "sysclk";		/* Assuming this is the
203							   name in the datasheet */
204			port {
205				imx074_1: endpoint {
206					clock-lanes = <0>;
207					data-lanes = <1 2>;
208					remote-endpoint = <&csi2_1>;
209				};
210			};
211		};
212	};
213
214	csi2: csi2@0xffc90000 {
215		compatible = "renesas,sh-mobile-csi2";
216		reg = <0xffc90000 0x1000>;
217		interrupts = <0x17a0>;
218		#address-cells = <1>;
219		#size-cells = <0>;
220
221		port@1 {
222			compatible = "renesas,csi2c";	/* One of CSI2I and CSI2C. */
223			reg = <1>;			/* CSI-2 PHY #1 of 2: PHY_S,
224							   PHY_M has port address 0,
225							   is unused. */
226			csi2_1: endpoint {
227				clock-lanes = <0>;
228				data-lanes = <2 1>;
229				remote-endpoint = <&imx074_1>;
230			};
231		};
232		port@2 {
233			reg = <2>;			/* port 2: link to the CEU */
234
235			csi2_2: endpoint {
236				remote-endpoint = <&ceu0_0>;
237			};
238		};
239	};
240