Add the V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE control to the list of mandatory controls the
sensor driver has to report and document this new requirement.
While at it, re-sort the mandatory V4L2 controls in alphabetical
order in the CameraSensor class and remove the above comment as
the usage of the controls is better reported in the documentation.
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
The description of the V4L2_CID_CAMERA_SENSOR_ROTATION control
usage wrongly mentioned the camera "orientation" while it actually
reports the camera rotation.
Fix it by using the right term.
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reported-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Reorder the introductory section of the sensor driver requirements
document to match the expected English language syntax.
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Suggested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Document the feature an image sensor driver has to provide to be
fully libcamera-compliant.
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Formatting code using astyle doesn't lead to results as good as with
clang-format, and doesn't receive much test coverage as most developers
use clang-format. The code is thus bitrotting. Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
There is no need to pass the Camera pointer to queueRequest(),
completeBuffer() and completeRequest() as the Request also passed
contains the same information. Remove the Camera argument to avoid
situations where the information in the Request and the argument differ.
There is no functional change and no public API change as the interface
is only used between the Camera and PipelineHandler.
Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
The details namespaces in libcamera are used to hide implementation
details, and should thus be excluded from documentation generation. This
is done incorrectly by specifying the exclusion pattern "*::details::*"
which will ignore all namespaces and types in any details namespace, but
won't ignore functions. Fix it by removing the trailing "::*", causing
Doxygen to ignore the namespace itself, and thus all its contents.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Describe the environment variables used in libcamera, excluded
variables are `LIBCAMERA_IPA_FORCE_C_API` and `LIBCAMERA_IPA_PROXY_PATH`,
the former because it is likely to be removed and the later because
it has no current use-case.
Add a brief explanation for the IPA configuration and IPA modules.
List all the available Log levels and categories and add a short guide
on how to use them for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
The Doxygen COLS_IN_ALPHA_INDEX option is deprecated, and generates a
warning with the Doxygen's master branch. Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Tested-by: Umang Jain <email@uajain.com>
Reviewed-by: Umang Jain <email@uajain.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Applications now have the ability to pass in controls that need to be
applied on startup, rather than doing it through Request where there might
be some frames of delay in getting the controls applied.
This commit adds the ability to pass in a set of libcamera controls into
the pipeline handlers through the pipeline_handler::start() method. These
controls are provided by the application through the camera::start()
public API.
Signed-off-by: Naushir Patuck <naush@raspberrypi.com>
Reviewed-by: David Plowman <david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>
Tested-by: David Plowman <david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Add guide for tracepoints, including how to define and use them.
Signed-off-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Implement tracing infrastructure in libcamera. It takes .tp files, as
required by lttng, and generates a tracepoint header and C file, as lttng
requires. meson is updated accordingly to get it to compile with the
rest of libcamera. Update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
s/Start and the stop the image acquisition/
/Start and stop the image acquisition/
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke.linux@gmail.com>
Document the issue related to global variable dependencies and how to
avoid them.
Signed-off-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
This way if the user enables the documentation and the dependencies are
missing the configure fails.
Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ricardo@ribalda.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Doxygen depends on dot to generate the documentation. Make this
dependency explicit on the meson file.
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ricardo@ribalda.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
While libcamera prefers usage of the C standard library headers (xxx.h)
over the C++ version (cxxx), we make an exception for cmath as the
overloaded versions of the math functions are convenient. Document this,
and adjust checkstyle.py accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Due to popular request, move from C++14 to C++17. This will allow
dropping some custom constructs (such as a custom utils::clamp),
benefiting from new language features, and dropping gcc 5 and 6 from the
compilation tests.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Introduce a pipeline-handler writers guide to provide a walk through of
the steps and concepts required to implement a new Pipeline Handler.
Signed-off-by: Chris Chinchilla <chris@gregariousmammal.com>
[Reflow/Rework, update to mainline API]
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
[Further reworks and review]
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Provide a tutorial and walk through guide for writing an applications
with libcamera.
Signed-off-by: Chris Chinchilla <chris@gregariousmammal.com>
[Reflow/Rework, update to mainline API]
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
[Further reworks and review]
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Create an introduction and overview for new developers to libcamera.
Provide an overview of the Camera Stack, and Architecture of libcamera
and introduce the main concepts of libcamera.
Signed-off-by: Chris Chinchilla <chris@gregariousmammal.com>
[Kieran: Rework/Reflow, add diagrams, licensing]
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
The TCL_SUBST tag is deprecated and causes doxygen 1.18.8 to generate a
warning. Drop it from Doxyfile.in.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
The list of public, IPA and internal header files are stored in three
meson variables, named libcamera_api, libcamera_ipa_api and
libcamera_headers respectively. The lack of uniformity is a bit
confusing. Fix it by renaming those variables to
libcamera_public_headers, libcamera_ipa_headers and
libcamera_internal_headers.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Acked-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
The IPA headers are installed into $prefix/include/libcamera/ipa/, but
are located in the source tree in include/ipa/. This requires files
within libcamera to include them with
#include <ipa/foo.h>
while a third party IPA would need to use
#include <libcamera/ipa/foo.h>
Not only is this inconsistent, it can create issues later if IPA headers
need to include each other, as the first form of include directive
wouldn't be valid once the headers are installed.
Fix the problem by moving the IPA headers to include/libcamera/ipa/.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
The libcamera internal headers are located in src/libcamera/include/.
The directory is added to the compiler headers search path with a meson
include_directories() directive, and internal headers are included with
(e.g. for the internal semaphore.h header)
#include "semaphore.h"
All was well, until libcxx decided to implement the C++20
synchronization library. The __threading_support header gained a
#include <semaphore.h>
to include the pthread's semaphore support. As include_directories()
adds src/libcamera/include/ to the compiler search path with -I, the
internal semaphore.h is included instead of the pthread version.
Needless to say, the compiler isn't happy.
Three options have been considered to fix this issue:
- Use -iquote instead of -I. The -iquote option instructs gcc to only
consider the header search path for headers included with the ""
version. Meson unfortunately doesn't support this option.
- Rename the internal semaphore.h header. This was deemed to be the
beginning of a long whack-a-mole game, where namespace clashes with
system libraries would appear over time (possibly dependent on
particular system configurations) and would need to be constantly
fixed.
- Move the internal headers to another directory to create a unique
namespace through path components. This causes lots of churn in all
the existing source files through the all project.
The first option would be best, but isn't available to us due to missing
support in meson. Even if -iquote support was added, we would need to
fix the problem before a new version of meson containing the required
support would be released.
The third option is thus the only practical solution available. Bite the
bullet, and do it, moving headers to include/libcamera/internal/.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
In an attempt to clarify the license terms of all files in the libcamera
project, the build system files deserve particular attention. While they
describe how the binaries are created, they are not themselves
transformed into any part of binary distributions of the software, and
thus don't influence the copyright on the binary packages. They are
however subject to copyright, and thus influence the distribution terms
of the source packages.
Most of the meson.build files would not meet the threshold of
originality criteria required for copyright protection. Some of the more
complex meson.build files may be eligible for copyright protection. To
avoid any ambiguity and uncertainty, state our intent to not assert
copyrights on the build system files by putting them in the public
domain with the CC0-1.0 license.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com>
Acked-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Acked-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Naushir Patuck <naush@raspberrypi.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Acked-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Show Liu <show.liu@linaro.org>
The syntax used for ordered lists is incorrect. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
The documentation files are licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0, but this has
never been specified explicitly. Add corresponding SPDX headers.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
The developer's certificate of origin isn't a license, move it from
LICENSES/ to Documentation/ by incorporating it in contributing.rst.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
These will be used to implement ControlValue::get() and set() as
template functions.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
C++20 will contain a std::span<> class that provides view over a
contiguous sequence of objects, the storage of which is owned by some
other object.
Add a compatible implementation to the utils namespace. This will be
used to implement array controls.
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Add a utils::split() function that splits a string for the purpose of
iterating over substrings. It returns an object of unspecified type that
can be used in range-based for loops.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Document the design of libcamera's threading support, and prepare to
document thread-safety of classes and functions with a doxygen alias
command.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Sphinx provides a run-target to verify external links specified in the
documentation. This requires an active connection to be able to validate
the links.
Add a meson target to integrate the linkcheck facility into our build
and test system.
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Use the d-pointer idiom ([1], [2]) to hide the private data members from
the CameraManager class interface. This will ease maintaining ABI
compatibility, and prepares for the implementation of the CameraManager
class threading model.
[1] https://wiki.qt.io/D-Pointer
[2] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/pimpl
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
C++14 is a minor release that doesn't introduce major new concepts or
paradigms compared to C++11, but brings two useful changes for us:
- std::make_unique allows dropping our custom implementation in utils.
- Functions returning constexpr are not assumed to be const anymore,
which is needed to create a standard-conformant span implementation.
All the g++ and clang++ versions we support and test (g++-5 onwards and
clang++6 onwards) support C++14. However, due to a defect in the
original C++14 specification, solved in N4387 ([1]), compilation would
fail on g++-5 due to the use of std::map::emplace() with a non-copyable
value type. It turns out we can easily fix it by switching to the
explicit piecewise emplace() overload.
There is thus really nothing holding back the switch. Let's do it, and
update the coding style accordingly.
[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4387
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Most of the bound method classes are named with a BoundMethod prefix,
except for BoundMemberMethod and BoundStaticMethod. Rename them to
BoundMethodMember and BoundMethodStatic respectively to make the code
more coherent.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
The bound method arguments pack will need to be accessed by the method
invoker in order to retrieve the method return value when using a
blocking connection type. We thus can't delete the pack unconditionally
in the bound method target thread. We also can't delete it
unconditionally in the invoker's thread, as for queued connections the
pack will be used in the target thread after the invoker completes.
This shows that ownership of the arguments pack is shared between two
contexts. As a result, manage it using std::shared_ptr<>.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Create a new BoundMethodPack class to replace the PackType type alias.
This will allow adding additional fields to the arguments pack, when
adding support for propagation of bound method return values.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Switch IPA communication to the plain C API. As the IPAInterface class
is easier to use for pipeline handlers than a plain C API, retain it and
add an IPAContextWrapper that translate between the C++ and the C APIs.
On the IPA module side usage of IPAInterface may be desired for IPAs
implemented in C++ that want to link to libcamera. For those IPAs, a new
IPAInterfaceWrapper helper class is introduced to wrap the IPAInterface
implemented internally by the IPA module into an ipa_context,
ipa_context_ops and ipa_callback_ops.
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
