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2009-06-16V4L/DVB (11613): pxa_camera: Documentation of the FSMRobert Jarzmik
After DMA redesign, the pxa_camera dynamic behaviour should be documented so that future contributors understand how it works, and improve it. Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-04-06V4L/DVB (11321): pxa_camera: Redesign DMA handlingRobert Jarzmik
The DMA transfers in pxa_camera showed some weaknesses in multiple queued buffers context : - poll/select problem The bug shows up with capture_example tool from v4l2 hg tree. The process just "stalls" on a "select timeout". - multiple buffers DMA starting When multiple buffers were queued, the DMA channels were always started right away. This is not optimal, as a special case appears when the first EOF was not yet reached, and the DMA channels were prematurely started. - Maintainability DMA code was a bit obfuscated. Rationalize the code to be easily maintainable by anyone. - DMA hot chaining DMA is not stopped anymore to queue a buffer, the buffer is queued with DMA running. As a tribute, a corner case exists where chaining happens while DMA finishes the chain, and the capture is restarted to deal with the missed link buffer. This patch attemps to address these issues / improvements. create mode 100644 Documentation/video4linux/pxa_camera.txt Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>