zr36120.txt
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- Driver for Trust Computer Products Framegrabber, version 0.6.1
- ------ --- ----- -------- -------- ------------ ------- - - -
- - ZORAN ------------------------------------------------------
- Author: Pauline Middelink <middelin@polyware.nl>
- Date: 18 September 1999
- Version: 0.6.1
- - Description ------------------------------------------------
- Video4Linux compatible driver for an unknown brand framegrabber
- (Sold in the Netherlands by TRUST Computer Products) and various
- other zoran zr36120 based framegrabbers.
- The card contains a ZR36120 Multimedia PCI Interface and a Philips
- SAA7110 Onechip Frontend videodecoder. There is also an DSP of
- which I have forgotten the number, since i will never get that thing
- to work without specs from the vendor itself.
- The SAA711x are capable of processing 6 different video inputs,
- CVBS1..6 and Y1+C1, Y2+C2, Y3+C3. All in 50/60Hz, NTSC, PAL or
- SECAM and delivering a YUV datastream. On my card the input
- 'CVBS-0' corresponds to channel CVBS2 and 'S-Video' to Y2+C2.
- I have some reports of other cards working with the mentioned
- chip sets. For a list of other working cards please have a look
- at the cards named in the tvcards struct in the beginning of
- zr36120.c
- After some testing, I discovered that the carddesigner messed up
- on the I2C interface. The Zoran chip includes 2 lines SDA and SCL
- which (s)he connected reversely. So we have to clock on the SDA
- and r/w data on the SCL pin. Life is fun... Each cardtype now has
- a bit which signifies if you have a card with the same deficiency.
- Oh, for the completeness of this story I must mention that my
- card delivers the VSYNC pulse of the SAA chip to GIRQ1, not
- GIRQ0 as some other cards have. This is also incorporated in
- the driver be clearing/setting the 'useirq1' bit in the tvcard
- description.
- Another problems of continuous capturing data with a Zoran chip
- is something nasty inside the chip. It effectively halves the
- fps we ought to get... Here is the scenario: capturing frames
- to memory is done in the so-called snapshot mode. In this mode
- the Zoran stops after capturing a frame worth of data and wait
- till the application set GRAB bit to indicate readiness for the
- next frame. After detecting a set bit, the chip neatly waits
- till the start of a frame, captures it and it goes back to off.
- Smart ppl will notice the problem here. Its the waiting on the
- _next_ frame each time we set the GRAB bit... Oh well, 12,5 fps
- is still plenty fast for me.
- -- update 28/7/1999 --
- Don't believe a word I just said... Proof is the output
- of `streamer -t 300 -r 25 -f avi15 -o /dev/null`
- ++--+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 25/25
- +-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-s+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
- syncer: done
- writer: done
- (note the /dev/null is prudent here, my system is not able to
- grab /and/ write 25 fps to a file... gifts welcome :) )
- The technical reasoning follows: The zoran completed the last
- frame, the VSYNC goes low, and GRAB is cleared. The interrupt
- routine starts to work since its VSYNC driven, and again
- activates the GRAB bit. A few ms later the VSYNC (re-)rises and
- the zoran starts to work on a new and freshly broadcasted frame....
- For pointers I used the specs of both chips. Below are the URLs:
- http://www.zoran.com/ftp/download/devices/pci/ZR36120/36120data.pdf
- http://www-us.semiconductor.philips.com/acrobat/datasheets/SAA_7110_A_1.pdf
- The documentation has very little on absolute numbers or timings
- needed for the various modes/resolutions, but there are other
- programs you can borrow those from.
- ------ Install --------------------------------------------
- Read the file called TODO. Note its long list of limitations.
- Build a kernel with VIDEO4LINUX enabled. Activate the
- BT848 driver; we need this because we have need for the
- other modules (i2c and videodev) it enables.
- To install this software, extract it into a suitable directory.
- Examine the makefile and change anything you don't like. Type "make".
- After making the modules check if you have the much needed
- /dev/video devices. If not, execute the following 4 lines:
- mknod /dev/video c 81 0
- mknod /dev/video1 c 81 1
- mknod /dev/video2 c 81 2
- mknod /dev/video3 c 81 3
- mknod /dev/video4 c 81 4
- After making/checking the devices do:
- modprobe i2c
- modprobe videodev
- modprobe saa7110 (optional)
- modprobe saa7111 (optional)
- modprobe tuner (optional)
- insmod zoran cardtype=<n>
- <n> is the cardtype of the card you have. The cardnumber can
- be found in the source of zr36120. Look for tvcards. If your
- card is not there, please try if any other card gives some
- response, and mail me if you got a working tvcard addition.
- PS. <TVCard editors behold!)
- Dont forget to set video_input to the number of inputs
- you defined in the video_mux part of the tvcard definition.
- Its a common error to add a channel but not incrementing
- video_input and getting angry with me/v4l/linux/linus :(
- You are now ready to test the framegrabber with your favorite
- video4linux compatible tool
- ------ Application ----------------------------------------
- This device works with all Video4Linux compatible applications,
- given the limitations in the TODO file.
- ------ API ------------------------------------------------
- This uses the V4L interface as of kernel release 2.1.116, and in
- fact has not been tested on any lower version. There are a couple
- of minor differences due to the fact that the amount of data returned
- with each frame varies, and no doubt there are discrepancies due to my
- misunderstanding of the API. I intend to convert this driver to the
- new V4L2 API when it has stabilized more.
- ------ Current state --------------------------------------
- The driver is capable of overlaying a video image in screen, and
- even capable of grabbing frames. It uses the BIGPHYSAREA patch
- to allocate lots of large memory blocks when tis patch is
- found in the kernel, but it doesn't need it.
- The consequence is that, when loading the driver as a module,
- the module may tell you it's out of memory, but 'free' says
- otherwise. The reason is simple; the modules wants its memory
- contingious, not fragmented, and after a long uptime there
- probably isn't a fragment of memory large enough...
- The driver uses a double buffering scheme, which should realy
- be an n-way buffer, depending on the size of allocated framebuffer
- and the requested grab-size/format.
- This current version also fixes a dead-lock situation during irq
- time, which really, really froze my system... :)
- Good luck.
- Pauline