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diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README index 647df41..335ebef 100644 --- a/docs/README +++ b/docs/README @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ Supported environmental variables ================================= - PCILIB_PLUGIN_DIR - override path to directory with plugins + PCILIB_MODEL - defines the requested model (is overriden with -m option) + PCILIB_PLUGIN_DIR - override path to directory with plugins - PCILIB_DEBUG_DMA - Enable DMA debugging + 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) IPECAMERA_DEBUG_HARDWARE - Produce various debugging information about ipecamera operation + IPECAMERA_DEBUG_FRAME_HEADERS - Print headers of each frame + IPECAMERA_DEBUG_API - Print messages while entering and finishing standard API calls PCILIB_BENCHMARK_HARDWARE - Remove all unnecessary software processing (like copying memcpy) to check hardware performance PCILIB_BENCHMARK_STREAMING - Emulate streaming mode while benchmarking DMA engines @@ -1,23 +1,24 @@ 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. Protect mmap operation (multiple kernel calls) with some locking mechanism - 4. Allow overriding of registers and banks (performance?). + 1. 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. 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 + 1. Implement pcilib_configure_autotrigger + 2. Provide OR and AND operations on registers in cli + 3. Support writting a data from a binary file in cli Low Priority (only as generalization for other projects) ============ 1. XML configurations describing registers (and DMA engines?) - 2. Access register/bank lookups using hash tables + 2. Access register/bank/lock lookups using hash tables 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 + 7. We managed kmem performance using next kmem prediction, but it is still wise to provide additionally a binary tree for faster search +Performance +=========== + 1. Even with fully algined data, glibc defaults to __memcpy_sse2_unaligned (called from ipecamera_data_callback and fastwriter_push). Can we do something? +
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