Comment 17 for bug 1978757

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Kai-Chuan Hsieh (kchsieh) wrote (last edit ): Re: Can't playback preview on Intel IPU6 camera platform

I try to compare the working and non-working system. The log's different when allocate buffer.

Good:
pipewire[1889]: pw.link: 0x5595fb3a6de0: allocating 16 buffers 0x5595fb3b4590
pipewire[1889]: pw.port: 0x5595fb361960: 1:0.0: 16 buffers flags:1 state:2 n_mix:1
pipewire[1889]: pw.port: 0x5595fb361960: 1.0 use 16 buffers on node: 0x5595fb35f2d0
pipewire[1889]: spa.v4l2: got 16 buffers

Bad:
pipewire[1118]: pw.link: 0x5620ee222d50: allocating 16 buffers 0x5620ee222600
pipewire[1118]: pw.port: 0x5620ee23d570: 1:0.0: 16 buffers flags:1 state:2 n_mix:1
pipewire[1118]: pw.port: 0x5620ee23d570: 1.0 use 16 buffers on node: 0x5620ee243c50
pipewire[1118]: spa.v4l2: got 2 buffers
pipewire[1118]: spa.v4l2: buffer 0 was already queued
pipewire[1118]: spa.v4l2: have 0 buffers using MMAP

From the source it utilize the ioctl to query the driver:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/blob/master/spa/plugins/v4l2/v4l2-utils.c#L1439

More, the driver report the buffer flag V4L2_BUF_FLAG_QUEUED on IPU6 platform.
Might need to check driver what makes it different. It keeps reporting no buffers for doing streaming on IPU6 platform.