Re: omap24xxcam status (Was: v4l2 camera test app)

[David Cohen <david.cohen@indt.org.br>]

Yes... good point. I will genereted another patch with support to this
new interface.
But it would be great if anyone could test this patch on H4.

Regards,

David Cohen

ext Zhang, Jian wrote:

>David,
>
>I don't see the new sensor interface incorporated in your patch. It is
>likely that Micron 2MP camera MT9D111 will be used by more people. The
>new sensor interface supports double-context which is an advanced
>feature of micron camera.
>
>Regards,
>Jian    
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Cohen [mailto:david.cohen@indt.org.br] 
>Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:10 AM
>To: ext Komal Shah
>Cc: Ola Helm; Linux-omap-open-source@linux.omap.com; Zhang, Jian
>Subject: Re: omap24xxcam status (Was: v4l2 camera test app)
>
>Hi,
>
>I just sent a code that should be compilable and working. I guess the
>mainly target is to apply this patch to the public tree. After that, as
>Komal said, could be interesting to update the dma code to the omap api
>to be easier future reviews.
>
>Regards,
>
>David Cohen
>
>ext Komal Shah wrote:
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>>--- Ola Helm <ola.hel@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Have you got some idea what's the situation of the 24xx camera driver
>>>at the
>>>moment? AFAIK the patch David sent in last month is not included to
>>>tree,
>>>propably since there were some opposite opinions about the way of
>>>implementation and at least I did not have one file mentioned in
>>>patch (I
>>>think you mentioned about the same issue)
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>24xx camera driver is now in David's hand. I just review the code now,
>>as not able to work on camera stuff anymore.
>>
>>Following strategy can work out meanwhile as I had offline discussion
>>with David :)
>>
>>o Separate 24xx CamDMA code from omap24xxcam.c to new file as 
>> exported apis (Suggested by David)
>>
>>o Keep the old omap24xxcam driver interface(2.6.8 TI kernel days), 
>> having video out code part of the camera driver itself. As new 
>> separated video out code depends upon the common display controller  
>> library, which requires to change fb driver in git tree to adopt 
>> that interface, so that video out, and fb driver can 
>> utilize the same code. But video out patches submitted by me didn't 
>> generated any discussion on the list in that direction. 
>>
>>o So, to have 24xx camera code in git tree, we can use the old camera 
>> driver interface as of now, if everyone agrees.
>>
>>---Komal Shah
>>http://komalshah.blogspot.com/
>>
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