[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra] nitrogen6x: ov5642 support in master/jethro broken

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-11-10 18:56, Ian Coolidge wrote:
> Carlos,
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> To follow up, I tested both the 3.14.28 image on jethro and the old 3.10.53 fido image in the blogpost I mentioned and both worked. Granted it took me two tries to get the ribbon
> cable seated properly, maybe you're having the same issues?
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> You should see "camera ov5640 is found" in dmesg if it properly detects the hardware. Then you can run this gst command to show it on the screen "gst-launch-1.0 imxv4l2videosrc
> device=/dev/video0 ! autovideosink".

I just verified this on my SabreLite which has OV5642 & OV5640_MIPI installed.
With the 3.10.53 kernel built in July, both sensors are found and function.
With the 3.14.28 kernel built today, only the OV5640_MIPI is found.

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> Thanks!
> -Ian Coolidge
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> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Ian Coolidge <ian at boundarydevices.com <mailto:ian at boundarydevices.com>> wrote:
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>     Hello Carlos,
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>     What kernel are you running? If it's the new 3.14.28 kernel you'll need to upgrade your u-boot version to our 2015.07 u-boot. I've written a blogpost about it here:
>     https://boundarydevices.com/compiling-latest-u-boot-for-i-mx6-2015-edition/.
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>     If you want to keep your old u-boot version, or want an image that works for the old u-boot, we have images on this blogpost that will work and have been tested against that
>     hardware: https://boundarydevices.com/fido-release-of-yocto/
>
>     Thanks,
>     -Ian Coolidge
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>     On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br <mailto:otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br>> wrote:
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>         Hello Carlos,
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>         On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani
>         <dv at pseudoterminal.org <mailto:dv at pseudoterminal.org>> wrote:
>         > I tried to use the nitrogen6x' camera, and saw that no ov5642 hardware was
>         > detected. The kernel module was loaded.
>         > With the fido kernel and the exact same hardware, it works just fine.
>         > Is this a known issue?
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>         Added Boundary's fellows on Cc.
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