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| -rw-r--r-- | BUGS | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NOTES | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | ToDo | 7 |
4 files changed, 15 insertions, 22 deletions
@@ -1,18 +1,5 @@ IPECamera Hardware Bugs ======================= 1. Strange sequence writting CMOSIS registers - 2. Extra 8 byte padding in the end of frames - 3. Solve the conflict between DMA packet_length register and FPGA registers - 4. Some frame requests are lost - -Incomplete Frames ------------------ - If I'm trying to stream the data, the camera from time to time returns - incomplete frames. The provided part of the frame is coherent. But instead - of at least 3063824 bytes (just full frame without padding, normally I get - more due to the padding) I get only 3063808 bytes. This number 3063808 looks - like to be constant. - - If I send another frame request, however, it looks I got the missing data with - the next frame. - + 2. Sometimes during DMA streaming register accesses fail + 3. The lower 12-bit of bus address are ignored by all hardware @@ -1,7 +1,3 @@ -Environment -=========== - PCILIB_PLUGIN_DIR - override path to directory with plugins - Memory Addressing ================= There is 3 types of addresses: virtual, physical, and bus. For DMA a bus @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Supported environmental variables +================================= + PCILIB_PLUGIN_DIR - override path to directory with plugins + + PCILIB_DEBUG_DMA - Enable DMA debugging + PCILIB_DEBUG_MISSING_EVENTS - Enable debugging of missing events (frames for instance) + IPECAMERA_DEBUG_BROKEN_FRAMES - Store broken frames in the specified directory (variable may specify directory) + IPECAMERA_DEBUG_RAW_PACKETS - Store all raw packets read from DMA grouped in frames (variable may specify directory) + IPECAMERA_DEBUG_RAW_FRAMES - Store all raw frames (variable may specify directory) @@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ High Priority (we would need it for IPE Camera) ============= 1. Serialize access to the registers across applications 2. Protect kmem_entries in the driver using spinlock - 3. Implement pcilib_configure_autotrigger + 3. Protect mmap operation (multiple kernel calls) with some locking mechanism + 4. Allow overriding of registers and banks (performance?). Normal Priority (it would make just few things a bit easier) =============== 1. Implement software registers (stored in kernel-memory) - 2. Support FIFO reads/writes from/to registers + 2. Implement pcilib_configure_autotrigger 3. Provide OR and AND operations on registers in cli 4. Support writting a data from a binary file in cli - 5. Use bus-addresses instead of physcial addresses for DMA Low Priority (only as generalization for other projects) ============ @@ -19,4 +19,5 @@ Low Priority (only as generalization for other projects) 3. Support for Network Registers and Network DMA 4. Define a syntax for register dependencies / delays (?) 5. Use pthread_condition_t instead of polling + 6. Support FIFO reads/writes from/to registers |