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authorBingbu Cao <bingbu.cao@intel.com>2019-10-22 23:59:02 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>2019-11-05 08:19:16 -0300
commit318335c250962cde36338e341235b313bc35e386 (patch)
treefb6e806ec8384f383436119a2a4bad82f040112f /drivers/staging/media
parent4147dca25d1f2aae2a44ac02647eaf29ef8d028a (diff)
media: doc-rst: ipu3: clarification on data type conversion of IEFD CU
The data type conversion of the IEFD CU inputs in ipu3 uapi is ambiguities, add some clarification to help user to understand this conversion. Signed-off-by: Bingbu Cao <bingbu.cao@intel.com> Suggested-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/media')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/media/ipu3/TODO2
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/media/ipu3/include/intel-ipu3.h5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/ipu3/TODO b/drivers/staging/media/ipu3/TODO
index 1fae569c7a48..7f7a2e958a86 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/ipu3/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/ipu3/TODO
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ staging directory.
Comments on configuring v4l2 subdevs for CIO2 and ImgU.
- uAPI documentation:
- Further clarification on some ambiguities such as data type conversion of
- IEFD CU inputs. (Sakari)
Move acronyms to doc-rst file. (Mauro)
- Switch to yavta from v4l2n in driver docs.
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/ipu3/include/intel-ipu3.h b/drivers/staging/media/ipu3/include/intel-ipu3.h
index c7cd27efac8a..08eaa0bad0de 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/ipu3/include/intel-ipu3.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/ipu3/include/intel-ipu3.h
@@ -1217,6 +1217,11 @@ struct ipu3_uapi_shd_config {
*
* All CU inputs are unsigned, they will be converted to signed when written
* to register, i.e. a01 will be written to 9 bit register in s4.4 format.
+ * The data precision s4.4 means 4 bits for integer parts and 4 bits for the
+ * fractional part, the first bit indicates positive or negative value.
+ * For userspace software (commonly the imaging library), the computation for
+ * the CU slope values should be based on the slope resolution 1/16 (binary
+ * 0.0001 - the minimal interval value), the slope value range is [-256, +255].
* This applies to &ipu3_uapi_iefd_cux6_ed, &ipu3_uapi_iefd_cux2_1,
* &ipu3_uapi_iefd_cux2_1, &ipu3_uapi_iefd_cux4 and &ipu3_uapi_iefd_cux6_rad.
*/