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    "date": "2025-07-16T14:20:20",
    "name": "[RFC,0/6] libcamera: simple: Enable Raw capture",
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        "From": "Umang Jain <uajain@igalia.com>",
        "To": "libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org",
        "Cc": "Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>,\n\tRobert Mader <robert.mader@collabora.com>, Umang Jain <uajain@igalia.com>",
        "Subject": "[RFC PATCH 0/6] libcamera: simple: Enable Raw capture",
        "Date": "Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:50:20 +0530",
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    "content": "RFC series to enable raw capture on simple pipeline handler with\nSoftISP enabled. I had a few thoughts on design of the features\nwhen I was reviewing Milan's series [1]. Hence, I decided to crystallise\nmy thoughts and posted as RFC to gather more feedback (and some real\ntesting on supportedDevices[]).\n\nI have left few things to include from [1] for e.g. colorspace issues.\nMy goal currently is to address the core issue of raw capture with this\nRFC.\n\nTesting branch [2]\nSetup: RPi 3b + IMX219\nCases tested with cam:\n\t- Single raw output\n\t- Single processed output\n\t- 1 Raw + 1 processed output\n\nOne can propose more use-cases as part of their testing. If they turn\nout to be complex, we can probably document it as \\todo, to get\naddressed at a later stage.\n\ncam Output:\n===========\n\nuajain1@uajain:~/libcamera$ ./build-soft/src/apps/cam/cam -c1 -srole=raw,width=1920,height=1080 -C5\n[27:26:59.248233501] [2384]  INFO IPAManager ipa_manager.cpp:137 libcamera is not installed. Adding '/home/uajain1/libcamera/build-soft/src/ipa' to the IPA search path\n[27:26:59.262004021] [2384]  INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:326 libcamera v0.5.1+63-c33be195\n[27:26:59.593703813] [2390]  INFO IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:151 libcamera is not installed. Loading IPA configuration from '/home/uajain1/libcamera/src/ipa/simple/data'\n[27:26:59.594050532] [2390]  WARN IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:177 Configuration file 'imx219.yaml' not found for IPA module 'simple', falling back to 'uncalibrated.yaml'\n[27:26:59.596620063] [2390]  INFO IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:151 libcamera is not installed. Loading IPA configuration from '/home/uajain1/libcamera/src/ipa/simple/data'\nUsing camera /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx219@10 as cam0\n[27:26:59.625957459] [2384]  INFO Camera camera.cpp:1205 configuring streams: (0) 1920x1080-SRGGB10/RAW\n[27:26:59.627666834] [2390]  INFO SimplePipeline simple.cpp:1471 data->useConversion_ : 0\ncam0: Capture 5 frames\n98819.750177 (0.00 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000000 bytesused: 4147200\n98819.783504 (30.01 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000001 bytesused: 4147200\n98819.816829 (30.01 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000002 bytesused: 4147200\n98819.850156 (30.01 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000003 bytesused: 4147200\n98819.883484 (30.00 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000004 bytesused: 4147200\n\n\nuajain1@uajain:~/libcamera$ ./build-soft/src/apps/cam/cam -c1 -srole=viewfinder,width=1920,height=1080 -C5\n[27:27:09.663699747] [2391]  INFO IPAManager ipa_manager.cpp:137 libcamera is not installed. Adding '/home/uajain1/libcamera/build-soft/src/ipa' to the IPA search path\n[27:27:09.677708965] [2391]  INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:326 libcamera v0.5.1+63-c33be195\n[27:27:09.933555736] [2392]  INFO IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:151 libcamera is not installed. Loading IPA configuration from '/home/uajain1/libcamera/src/ipa/simple/data'\n[27:27:09.933821778] [2392]  WARN IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:177 Configuration file 'imx219.yaml' not found for IPA module 'simple', falling back to 'uncalibrated.yaml'\n[27:27:09.936308080] [2392]  INFO IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:151 libcamera is not installed. Loading IPA configuration from '/home/uajain1/libcamera/src/ipa/simple/data'\nCamera configuration adjusted\nUsing camera /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx219@10 as cam0\n[27:27:09.965424746] [2391]  INFO Camera camera.cpp:1205 configuring streams: (0) 1916x1080-XRGB8888/Unset\n[27:27:09.967118705] [2392]  INFO SimplePipeline simple.cpp:1471 data->useConversion_ : 1\n[27:27:09.970895528] [2392]  INFO IPASoft soft_simple.cpp:264 IPASoft: Exposure 4-1759, gain 1-10.6667 (0.0966667)\ncam0: Capture 5 frames\n98830.200120 (0.00 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000000 bytesused: 8277120\n98830.233445 (30.01 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000001 bytesused: 8277120\n98830.266770 (30.01 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000002 bytesused: 8277120\n98831.033291 (1.30 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000025 bytesused: 8277120\n98831.799810 (1.30 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000048 bytesused: 8277120\n\n\nuajain1@uajain:~/libcamera$ ./build-soft/src/apps/cam/cam -c1 -srole=raw,width=1920,height=1080 -srole=viewfinder,width=1920,height=1080 -C10\n[27:27:26.239476459] [2395]  INFO IPAManager ipa_manager.cpp:137 libcamera is not installed. Adding '/home/uajain1/libcamera/build-soft/src/ipa' to the IPA search path\n[27:27:26.253694063] [2395]  INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:326 libcamera v0.5.1+63-c33be195\n[27:27:26.572276146] [2396]  INFO IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:151 libcamera is not installed. Loading IPA configuration from '/home/uajain1/libcamera/src/ipa/simple/data'\n[27:27:26.572539792] [2396]  WARN IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:177 Configuration file 'imx219.yaml' not found for IPA module 'simple', falling back to 'uncalibrated.yaml'\n[27:27:26.574856667] [2396]  INFO IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:151 libcamera is not installed. Loading IPA configuration from '/home/uajain1/libcamera/src/ipa/simple/data'\nCamera configuration adjusted\nUsing camera /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx219@10 as cam0\n[27:27:26.603776146] [2395]  INFO Camera camera.cpp:1205 configuring streams: (0) 1920x1080-SRGGB10/RAW (1) 1916x1080-XRGB8888/Unset\n[27:27:26.605656303] [2396]  INFO SimplePipeline simple.cpp:1471 data->useConversion_ : 1\n[27:27:26.609448803] [2396]  INFO IPASoft soft_simple.cpp:264 IPASoft: Exposure 4-1759, gain 1-10.6667 (0.0966667)\ncam0: Capture 10 frames\n98846.739621 (0.00 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000000 bytesused: 4147200 cam0-stream1 seq: 000000 bytesused: 8277120\n98846.772946 (30.01 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000001 bytesused: 4147200 cam0-stream1 seq: 000001 bytesused: 8277120\n98846.806274 (30.00 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000002 bytesused: 4147200 cam0-stream1 seq: 000002 bytesused: 8277120\n98846.839601 (30.01 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000003 bytesused: 4147200 cam0-stream1 seq: 000003 bytesused: 8277120\n98847.539465 (1.43 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000024 bytesused: 4147200 cam0-stream1 seq: 000024 bytesused: 8277120\n98848.206006 (1.50 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000044 bytesused: 4147200 cam0-stream1 seq: 000044 bytesused: 8277120\n98848.872546 (1.50 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000064 bytesused: 4147200 cam0-stream1 seq: 000064 bytesused: 8277120\n98849.539084 (1.50 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000084 bytesused: 4147200 cam0-stream1 seq: 000084 bytesused: 8277120\n98850.205624 (1.50 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000104 bytesused: 4147200 cam0-stream1 seq: 000104 bytesused: 8277120\n98850.872164 (1.50 fps) cam0-stream0 seq: 000124 bytesused: 4147200 cam0-stream1 seq: 000124 bytesused: 8277120\n\n[1]: https://patchwork.libcamera.org/project/libcamera/list/?series=5281\n[2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/uajain/libcamera/-/commits/uajain/simple/raw\n\nMilan Zamazal (3):\n  libcamera: simple: Set the number of software ISP streams to 2\n  libcamera: simple: Exclude raw configurations from output conversions\n  libcamera: simple: Require metadata only when software ISP is used\n\nUmang Jain (3):\n  libcamera: simple: Support StreamRole::Raw in generateConfiguration()\n  libcamera: simple: Validate raw streams if requested\n  libcamera: simple: Enable capturing of raw streams\n\n src/libcamera/pipeline/simple/simple.cpp | 166 ++++++++++++++++++-----\n 1 file changed, 131 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)"
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