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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-11-16 14:27, Ian Coolidge wrote:
> Gary/Carlos,
>
> What U-Boot version are you running? You need the new 2015-07 boundary u-boot to work with the new 3.14.28 kernel.

U-Boot 2015.07 (Sep 23 2015 - 09:05:20 -0600)

Is there anything newer?

>
> Thanks,
> -Ian Coolidge
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2015-11-11 08:42, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
>
>         Yes, same here. The thing is, my camera is an ov5642 module.
>
>
>     What's really interesting is that the ov5642 doesn't seem to even
>     show up on the I2C bus with the newer kernel:
>
>     3.10.53:
>     root at nitrogen6x:~# i2cdetect -r -y 1
>           0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
>     00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- UU UU --
>     40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     50: UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>
>     3.14.28:
>     root at nitrogen6x:~# i2cdetect -r -y 1
>     0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
>     00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- UU --
>     40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     50: UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>     70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>
>     0x3d is the ov5642 and 0x3e is ov5640_mipi
>
>
>
>         On 2015-11-11 16:37, Gary Thomas wrote:
>
>             On 2015-11-10 18:56, Ian Coolidge wrote:
>
>                 Carlos,
>
>                 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?
>
>                 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.
>
>
>                 Thanks!
>                 -Ian Coolidge
>
>                 On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Ian Coolidge <ian at boundarydevices.com <mailto:ian at boundarydevices.com> <mailto:ian at boundarydevices.com
>                 <mailto:ian at boundarydevices.com>>> wrote:
>
>                      Hello Carlos,
>
>                      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/.
>
>                      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
>
>                      On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br <mailto:otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br>
>                 <mailto:otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br <mailto:otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br>>> wrote:
>
>                          Hello Carlos,
>
>                          On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani
>                          <dv at pseudoterminal.org <mailto:dv at pseudoterminal.org> <mailto: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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