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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/npcm-video.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/npcm-video.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b47771dd8b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/npcm-video.rst @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +NPCM video driver +================= + +This driver is used to control the Video Capture/Differentiation (VCD) engine +and Encoding Compression Engine (ECE) present on Nuvoton NPCM SoCs. The VCD can +capture a frame from digital video input and compare two frames in memory, and +the ECE can compress the frame data into HEXTILE format. + +Driver-specific Controls +------------------------ + +V4L2_CID_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The VCD engine supports two modes: + +- COMPLETE mode: + + Capture the next complete frame into memory. + +- DIFF mode: + + Compare the incoming frame with the frame stored in memory, and updates the + differentiated frame in memory. + +Application can use ``V4L2_CID_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE`` control to set the VCD mode +with different control values (enum v4l2_npcm_capture_mode): + +- ``V4L2_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE_COMPLETE``: will set VCD to COMPLETE mode. +- ``V4L2_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE_DIFF``: will set VCD to DIFF mode. + +V4L2_CID_NPCM_RECT_COUNT +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +If using V4L2_PIX_FMT_HEXTILE format, VCD will capture frame data and then ECE +will compress the data into HEXTILE rectangles and store them in V4L2 video +buffer with the layout defined in Remote Framebuffer Protocol: +:: + + (RFC 6143, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6143.html#section-7.6.1) + + +--------------+--------------+-------------------+ + | No. of bytes | Type [Value] | Description | + +--------------+--------------+-------------------+ + | 2 | U16 | x-position | + | 2 | U16 | y-position | + | 2 | U16 | width | + | 2 | U16 | height | + | 4 | S32 | encoding-type (5) | + +--------------+--------------+-------------------+ + | HEXTILE rectangle data | + +-------------------------------------------------+ + +Application can get the video buffer through VIDIOC_DQBUF, and followed by +calling ``V4L2_CID_NPCM_RECT_COUNT`` control to get the number of HEXTILE +rectangles in this buffer. + +References +---------- +include/uapi/linux/npcm-video.h + +**Copyright** |copy| 2022 Nuvoton Technologies |