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Rework the control-related classes to improve the API towards applications. The goal is to enable writing code similar to Request *req = ...; ControlList &controls = req->controls(); controls->set(controls::AwbEnable, false); controls->set(controls::ManualExposure, 1000); ... int32_t exposure = controls->get(controls::ManualExposure); with the get and set operations ensuring type safety for the control values. This is achieved by creating the following classes: - Control defines controls and is the main way to reference a control. It is a template class to allow methods using it to refer to the control type. - ControlId is the base class of Control. It stores the control ID, name and type, and can be used in contexts where a control needs to be referenced regardless of its type (for instance in lists of controls). This class replaces ControlIdentifier. - ControlValue is kept as-is. The ControlList class now exposes two template get() and set() methods that replace the operator[]. They ensure type safety by infering the value type from the Control reference that they receive. The main way to refer to a control is now through the Control class, and optionally through its base ControlId class. The ControlId enumeration is removed, replaced by a list of global Control instances. Numerical control IDs are turned into macros, and are still exposed as they are required to communicate with IPAs (especially to deserialise control lists). They should however not be used by applications. Auto-generation of header and source files is removed for now to keep the change simple. It will be added back in the future in a more elaborate form. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se> |
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===========
libcamera
===========
**A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS**
Cameras are complex devices that need heavy hardware image processing
operations. Control of the processing is based on advanced algorithms that must
run on a programmable processor. This has traditionally been implemented in a
dedicated MCU in the camera, but in embedded devices algorithms have been moved
to the main CPU to save cost. Blurring the boundary between camera devices and
Linux often left the user with no other option than a vendor-specific
closed-source solution.
To address this problem the Linux media community has very recently started
collaboration with the industry to develop a camera stack that will be
open-source-friendly while still protecting vendor core IP. libcamera was born
out of that collaboration and will offer modern camera support to Linux-based
systems, including traditional Linux distributions, ChromeOS and Android.
Getting Started
---------------
To build and install:
::
meson build
cd build
ninja
ninja install
Dependencies
------------
The following Debian/Ubuntu packages are required for building libcamera.
Other distributions may have differing package names:
A C++ toolchain: [required]
Either {g++, clang}
for libcamera: [required]
meson ninja-build
for device hotplug enumeration: [optional]
pkg-config libudev-dev
for qcam: [optional]
qtbase5-dev libqt5core5a libqt5gui5 libqt5widgets5
for documentation: [optional]
python3-sphinx doxygen