Connect IMX219-160 to Raspberry Pi

[rostislavetc]

Hello,

I'm trying to use IMX219-160 cameras (https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/IMX219-160_Camera) with Raspberry Pi. I know, that waveshare pointed out on the site, that this camera is compatible with Jetson Nano, but due to we can't get Jetson carrier board on the time, we decide to connect cameras to Raspberry Pi Zero modules.
So, cameras work with Jetson Nano perfectly, but when I connect it to Raspberry, we get an error:

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mmal: mmal_vc_component_enable: failed to enable component: ENOSPC
mmal: camera component couldn't be enabled
mmal: main: Failed to create camera component
mmal: Failed to run camera app. Please check for firmware updates

I'm find out, that if we firstly connect original Raspberry Camera Module v2.1 to Raspberry and reboot system, and then swap original Raspberry Camera Module v2.1 to IMX219-160 camera, we don't get this error and IMX219 camera work perfectly.

Therefore, we conclude, that on boot raspberry, camera drivers loaded properly with Raspberry Camera Module v2.1, but on boot with IMX219-160, this drivers doesn't load properly.
We have checked dmesg and syslog with this different boots, and don't find differences (in attachements).

Could you help us to properly load IMX219-160 camera on Raspberry Pi?

Tested boards:
Raspberry Pi Zero 1.3
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
OS:
Trying Raspbian Buster with kernel 4.19.66, with kernel 4.20, and with kernel 5.3
Trying ArchLinux with Kernel 4.19.66

/boot/config.txt:

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gpu_mem=128
start_file=start_x.elf
fixup_file=fixup_x.dat
cma_lwm=16
cma_hwm=16
cma_offline_start=16

/boot/cmdline.txt:

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root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 selinux=0 plymouth.enable=0 smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 elevator=noop

Also trying to mix kernels modules to load, as mentioned in https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/435 and in forum topics.

[jamesh]

That camera board is not official so does not have the required crypto chip on it. So will not work on a standard Raspberry Pi. Should work on a Compute module as that does not require the crypto chip.

There are kernel drivers for that chip, so you could with some effort use it for raw captures, but running the standard camera software will not work.

[Realizator]

... Should work on a Compute module as that does not require the crypto chip.
...

I confirm, these IMX219-160 works fine with the CM3-based StereoPi. The same thing for the IMX219-200 (with 200 degree FOV).

[HermannSW]

I'm find out, that if we firstly connect original Raspberry Camera Module v2.1 to Raspberry and reboot system, and then swap original Raspberry Camera Module v2.1 to IMX219-160 camera, we don't get this error and IMX219 camera work perfectly.

I would have thought that the crypto chip is called more than once on bootup (in closed source GPU code), but that experiment seems to prove once only.