From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: sean@mess.org, hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl,
mchehab+samsung@kernel.org, mchehab@kernel.org,
sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com, linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minimal libv4l2 support for complex cameras
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:24:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200323122442.GD12103@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200323122216.GA18697@duo.ucw.cz>
Hi Pavel,
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 01:22:17PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:47:27PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> We now have easy-to-install support for complex camera in form of
> >> Maemo Leste on N900.... Unfortunately we don't have anything in
> >> userspace that can be used to work with the camera.
> >>
> >> This attempts to be minimal solution to get libv4l2 to work.
> >
> > libv4l2 is mostly deprecated. How about contributing an OMAP3 ISP
> > pipeline handler to libcamera instead ? :-)
>
> Why should it be instead?
>
> I need something for kernel testing, and there is ton of apps using
> it. Let me do this. libcamera might be future, but...
Sure, if it's useful for you, I won't prevent you from developing any
code you want :-) But there's very little chance of getting it merged,
and it would be useful to more people to have a support for that
platform in libcamera. It's really your decision, and I'm not blaming
you.
> >> It enables passing camera pipeline description to libv4l2, so that
> >> controls are mapped to appopriate devices, and libv4l2 can be used
> >> with complex camera.
> >>
> >> It is useful for testing kernel parts of N900 subsystem, and it will
> >> serve as a basis for autofocus work and autogain improvements.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-23 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-23 11:47 [PATCH] Minimal libv4l2 support for complex cameras Pavel Machek
2020-03-23 11:57 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-03-23 12:22 ` Pavel Machek
2020-03-23 12:24 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2020-03-23 12:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-23 13:43 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-03-23 13:19 ` Pavel Machek
2020-03-23 13:52 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-04-14 9:11 ` Hans Verkuil
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