linux camera drivers

Chetan Nanda chetannanda at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 21:34:21 EST 2012


Hi,
AFAIK imx036 is a raw bayer camera, and would be outputting data on mipi
data line.
So one needs a dedicated hardware such as mipi rx and then Isp etc.. And i
dont think drivers for these would be available in linux. I might be wrong
...
On Mar 5, 2012 2:18 PM, "Prabhakar Lad" <prab
>
> Mayank,
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Mayank Agarwal <
> mayank77fromindia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Mayank Agarwal <
>> mayank77fromindia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 1.I think the device supports i2c or spi protocol.I want to know how the
>>> i2c or spi is taking data
>>>  from image sensor and giving it to video buffers.
>>> Most of the cameras support i2c or csi.
>>>
>>
>
>> 2.I want to understand the whole data flow from image sensor to the
>>> display buffer and the role of linux kernel
>>> camera drivers in that.
>>> For this you need to understand the V4L2 Framework, Or later Media
>>> Controller Framework.
>>>
>>
>
>> 3.Currently i am looking at Sony IMX036,Aptima MT9P031.
>>
>>           You can find in directory <source>/drivers/media/video/
>            MT9p031 support is there in current kernel but no idea about
> imx036.
>
> Regards,
> ---Prabhakar Lad
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>
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>> Mayank
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 05:57:52PM +0530, Mayank Agarwal wrote:
>>>> > Hi all,
>>>> >
>>>> > I have following questions regarding camera drivers in  linux kernel.
>>>> >
>>>> > 1.which are the files/folder in kernel directory where camera drivers
>>>> support
>>>> > is provided in linux kernel.
>>>>
>>>> It depends, which type of protocol does your device support?
>>>>
>>>> > 2.Are they customisable according to different SOC requirements.
>>>>
>>>> It depends on what the requirements are.  As it's software, it's always
>>>> able to be changed :)
>>>>
>>>> > 3.Are there any tutorials/pdfs to understand camera drivers in linux
>>>> kernel.
>>>>
>>>> What is wrong with the code itself?
>>>>
>>>> > 4.At present which sensor (i mean aptina/sony/omnivision) drivers are
>>>> supported
>>>> > in linux kernel.
>>>>
>>>> What sensor are you looking for exactly?
>>>>
>>>> What device do you need to support, and what protocol does your camera
>>>> use to talk to the hardware?
>>>>
>>>> greg k-h
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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