i.MX6 MIPI-CSI2 OV5640 Camera testing on Mainline Linux

[Adam Ford]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 7:40 AM Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 9:37 AM Adam Ford <aford173 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you!  This tutorial web site is exactly what I need.  The
> > documentation page in Linux touched on the media-ctl links, but it
> > didn't explain the syntax or the mapping.  This graphical
> > interpretation really helps it make more sense.
>
> Is capturing working well on your i.MX6 board now?

Fabio,

Unfortunately, no.  I built the rootfs based on Jagan's instructions
at https://openedev.amarulasolutions.com/display/ODWIKI/i.CoreM6+1.5

I tried building both the 4.15-RC6 kernel, a 4.19 kernel and a 4.14 LTS kernel.

Using the suggested method of generating the graphical display of the
pipeline options, I am able to enable various pipeline options
connecting different /dev/videoX options tot he camera.  I have tried
both the  suggested method above as well as the instructions found in
Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/imx.rst for their respective kernels,
and I have tried multiple options to capture through
ipu1_csi1_capture, ipu2_csi1_capture, and ip1_ic_prepenc capture, and
all yield a broken pipe.

libv4l2: error turning on stream: Broken pipe
ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src0: Could
not read from resource.
Additional debug info:
gstv4l2bufferpool.c(1064): gst_v4l2_buffer_pool_poll ():
/GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src0:
poll error 1: Broken pipe (32)

I can hear the camera click when I start gstreamer and click again
when it stops trying to stream.

dmesg indicates a broken pipe as well..

[ 2419.851502] ipu2_csi1: pipeline start failed with -32

might you have any suggestions?

thanks,

adam