Re: i.MX6 status for IPU/VPU/GPU

[Steve Longerbeam <steve_longerbeam@mentor.com>]

On 09/10/2014 09:08 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote:
> 2014-09-09 18:28 GMT+02:00 Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com>:
>> On 09/09/2014 12:49 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote:
>>> 2014-08-27 16:23 GMT+02:00 Steve Longerbeam <steve_longerbeam@mentor.com>:
>>>
>>>> The complete driver I posted to the list does have some minor issues
>>>> mostly suggested by Hans Verkuil (switch to new selection API instead
>>>> of cropping API for example). It is a full featured driver but it does not
>>>> implement the media device framework, i.e. user does not have direct
>>>> control of the video pipeline, rather the driver chooses the pipeline based
>>>> on the traditional inputs from user (video format and controls).
>>>>
>>>> If there is interest I can submit another version of the traditional driver
>>>> to resolve the issues. But media device is a major rework, so I don't
>>>> know whether it would make sense to start from the traditional driver
>>>> and then implement media device on top later, since media device
>>>> is almost a complete rewrite.
>>> I, at least, am interested by this driver, even in its "traditionnal"
>>> form :). If you don't want to submit it directly because this is not
>>> using media controller, this is ok, you can provide me a git repo in
>>> order to get it, or send a patchset.
>> Hi Jean-Michel, I forgot to mention I will be working on the staging
>> capture driver in a copy of the media-tree on github at:
>>
>> git@github.com:slongerbeam/mediatree.git
>>
> I took your mx6-camera-staging branch and merger it, but compile fails :
> drivers/staging/media/imx6/capture/mx6-vdic.c:815:2: error: implicit
> declaration of function 'ipu_mbus_code_to_fourcc'
>
> Maybe isn't it ready yet ? I always want to go faster than music... :)

Hi JM, yes I'm still working on it, I'll let you know when I think it's
in a good-enough state.

Steve