<refentry id="vidioc-dbg-g-register"> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_DBG_G_REGISTER, VIDIOC_DBG_S_REGISTER</refentrytitle> &manvol; </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>VIDIOC_DBG_G_REGISTER</refname> <refname>VIDIOC_DBG_S_REGISTER</refname> <refpurpose>Read or write hardware registers</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <funcsynopsis> <funcprototype> <funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef> <paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef> <paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef> <paramdef>struct v4l2_dbg_register *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef> </funcprototype> </funcsynopsis> <funcsynopsis> <funcprototype> <funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef> <paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef> <paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef> <paramdef>const struct v4l2_dbg_register *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef> </funcprototype> </funcsynopsis> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1> <title>Arguments</title> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><parameter>fd</parameter></term> <listitem> <para>&fd;</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><parameter>request</parameter></term> <listitem> <para>VIDIOC_DBG_G_REGISTER, VIDIOC_DBG_S_REGISTER</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><parameter>argp</parameter></term> <listitem> <para></para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <note> <title>Experimental</title> <para>This is an <link linkend="experimental">experimental</link> interface and may change in the future.</para> </note> <para>For driver debugging purposes these ioctls allow test applications to access hardware registers directly. Regular applications must not use them.</para> <para>Since writing or even reading registers can jeopardize the system security, its stability and damage the hardware, both ioctls require superuser privileges. Additionally the Linux kernel must be compiled with the <constant>CONFIG_VIDEO_ADV_DEBUG</constant> option to enable these ioctls.</para> <para>To write a register applications must initialize all fields of a &v4l2-dbg-register; except for <structfield>size</structfield> and call <constant>VIDIOC_DBG_S_REGISTER</constant> with a pointer to this structure. The <structfield>match.type</structfield> and <structfield>match.addr</structfield> or <structfield>match.name</structfield> fields select a chip on the TV card, the <structfield>reg</structfield> field specifies a register number and the <structfield>val</structfield> field the value to be written into the register.</para> <para>To read a register applications must initialize the <structfield>match.type</structfield>, <structfield>match.addr</structfield> or <structfield>match.name</structfield> and <structfield>reg</structfield> fields, and call <constant>VIDIOC_DBG_G_REGISTER</constant> with a pointer to this structure. On success the driver stores the register value in the <structfield>val</structfield> field and the size (in bytes) of the value in <structfield>size</structfield>.</para> <para>When <structfield>match.type</structfield> is <constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_BRIDGE</constant>, <structfield>match.addr</structfield> selects the nth non-sub-device chip on the TV card. The number zero always selects the host chip, ⪚ the chip connected to the PCI or USB bus. You can find out which chips are present with the &VIDIOC-DBG-G-CHIP-INFO; ioctl.</para> <para>When <structfield>match.type</structfield> is <constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_SUBDEV</constant>, <structfield>match.addr</structfield> selects the nth sub-device.</para> <para>These ioctls are optional, not all drivers may support them. However when a driver supports these ioctls it must also support &VIDIOC-DBG-G-CHIP-INFO;. Conversely it may support <constant>VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO</constant> but not these ioctls.</para> <para><constant>VIDIOC_DBG_G_REGISTER</constant> and <constant>VIDIOC_DBG_S_REGISTER</constant> were introduced in Linux 2.6.21, but their API was changed to the one described here in kernel 2.6.29.</para> <para>We recommended the <application>v4l2-dbg</application> utility over calling these ioctls directly. It is available from the LinuxTV v4l-dvb repository; see <ulink url="http://linuxtv.org/repo/">http://linuxtv.org/repo/</ulink> for access instructions.</para> <!-- Note for convenience vidioc-dbg-g-chip-info.sgml contains a duplicate of this table. --> <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-dbg-match"> <title>struct <structname>v4l2_dbg_match</structname></title> <tgroup cols="4"> &cs-ustr; <tbody valign="top"> <row> <entry>__u32</entry> <entry><structfield>type</structfield></entry> <entry>See <xref linkend="chip-match-types" /> for a list of possible types.</entry> </row> <row> <entry>union</entry> <entry>(anonymous)</entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> <entry>__u32</entry> <entry><structfield>addr</structfield></entry> <entry>Match a chip by this number, interpreted according to the <structfield>type</structfield> field.</entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> <entry>char</entry> <entry><structfield>name[32]</structfield></entry> <entry>Match a chip by this name, interpreted according to the <structfield>type</structfield> field. Currently unused.</entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> </table> <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-dbg-register"> <title>struct <structname>v4l2_dbg_register</structname></title> <tgroup cols="4"> <colspec colname="c1" /> <colspec colname="c2" /> <colspec colname="c4" /> <tbody valign="top"> <row> <entry>struct v4l2_dbg_match</entry> <entry><structfield>match</structfield></entry> <entry>How to match the chip, see <xref linkend="v4l2-dbg-match" />.</entry> </row> <row> <entry>__u32</entry> <entry><structfield>size</structfield></entry> <entry>The register size in bytes.</entry> </row> <row> <entry>__u64</entry> <entry><structfield>reg</structfield></entry> <entry>A register number.</entry> </row> <row> <entry>__u64</entry> <entry><structfield>val</structfield></entry> <entry>The value read from, or to be written into the register.</entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> </table> <!-- Note for convenience vidioc-dbg-g-chip-info.sgml contains a duplicate of this table. --> <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="chip-match-types"> <title>Chip Match Types</title> <tgroup cols="3"> &cs-def; <tbody valign="top"> <row> <entry><constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_BRIDGE</constant></entry> <entry>0</entry> <entry>Match the nth chip on the card, zero for the bridge chip. Does not match sub-devices.</entry> </row> <row> <entry><constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_SUBDEV</constant></entry> <entry>4</entry> <entry>Match the nth sub-device.</entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> </table> </refsect1> <refsect1> &return-value; <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><errorcode>EPERM</errorcode></term> <listitem> <para>Insufficient permissions. Root privileges are required to execute these ioctls.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </refsect1> </refentry>