Re: omap3camera and linux-omap

[Michael Jones <michael.jones@matrix-vision.de>]

Aguirre, Sergio wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-omap-
>> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Michael Jones
>> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 8:48 AM
>> To: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: sakari.ailus@maxwell.research.nokia.com
>> Subject: omap3camera and linux-omap
>>
>> I am currently using Sakari's omap3camera repository (branch 'devel').
>> 'git merge-base linux-omap omap3camera' tells me that the last commit
>> omap3camera has in common with linux-omap is 40a0c47, from July 7 2010.
>> But there are >1000 commits which are only in omap3camera, dating back to
>> 2008.
>>
>> Is this destined to stay this way?
> 
> This is because devel branch keeps a detailed development history since we started working on the camera driver. At the end, the patches submitted will be a consolidated set, which should end in something around ~12 patches or so..
> 
>> Or will the omap3camera tree be merged into linux-omap at some point?
> 
> The omap3camera submission is on hold, because the camera driver is dependant on Media controller framework, which is holding for merge in linux-media mailing list.
> 
>> When proposing a patch for the omap3camera tree, should it be sent to this
>> list?
> 
> You should preferably send the patches to linux-media (at) vger.kernel.org mailing with cc to Sakari Ailus and Laurent Pinchart.
> 
> So far we have been keeping patch review internally, because we didn't want to pollute the mailing list with patches to unsubmitted code.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergio
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>>

Hi Sergio,

Thanks for the helpful reply.  Can you also clarify for me the difference between omap3camera and your linux-omap-camera (http://dev.omapzoom.org/?p=saaguirre/linux-omap-camera.git;a=summary) repositories?

I assume this development has mainly happened on the "board-rx51*" platform?

Ultimately I want to get raw sensor data to memory.  Do you foresee any problems doing that with the current state of omap3camera?  Might I be better off going with a kernel with v4l2_int_device at first?


thanks,
Michael

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