Re: [PATCH 2/2] phy: qcom-mipi-csi2: Add a CSI2 MIPI D-PHY driver

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

On 22/07/2025 09:32, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> The whole key point here is the combo mode, as I understood the combo 
> mode feature
> makes the PHY lanes available as 2 separate streams, like if you got 2 
> "controllers"
> attached to the same PHY. So in fact, the PHY should have a single node, 
> but 2 PHY
> interfaces in combo mode.
>
> This makes all this controller/phy model very complex to handle and add 
> a lot of
> logic in the camss side. Moving the "csiphy" as an independent media 
> device that
> can declare up to 2 endpoints in combo mode makes things much simpler, 
> and allows
> us to attach each "csiphy" stream to any "controller" side of camss.

I think there should be a generic extension to PHY/linux-media to 
support that instead of something Qualcomm specific.

The first task is qcom/CAMSS specific which is separate the CSIPHYs out 
from the CAMSS block - done in this series and do so in a way that 
doesn't break the existing ABI - done in the context of adding Hamoa/x1e.

The second step should be to extend the existing linux-media and PHY API 
to support multiple sensors on the same CSIPHY in a generic way.

If you want to ship me some hardware, I'll help.

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