Re: [media-workshop] Tentative Agenda for the November workshop

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Sylwester,

On Tuesday 23 October 2012 13:59:01 Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 12:22 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 October 2012 08:46:21 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >> On Tue October 23 2012 03:03:35 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>> On Monday 22 October 2012 14:06:06 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >>>> On Mon October 22 2012 13:18:46 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>>>> On Monday 22 October 2012 12:53:02 Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> >>>>>> On 10/22/2012 12:39 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Monday 22 October 2012 10:35:56 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> This is the tentative agenda for the media workshop on November
> >>>>>>>> 8, 2012. If you have additional things that you want to discuss,
> >>>>>>>> or something is wrong or incomplete in this list, please let me
> >>>>>>>> know so I can update the list.
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Thank you Hans for taking care of the agenda.
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> - Explain current merging process (Mauro)
> >>>>>>>> - Open floor for discussions on how to improve it (Mauro)
> >>>>>>>> - Write down minimum requirements for new V4L2 (and DVB?)
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>   drivers, both for staging and mainline acceptance: which
> >>>>>>>>   frameworks to use, v4l2-compliance, etc. (Hans Verkuil)
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> - V4L2 ambiguities (Hans Verkuil)
> >>>>>>>> - TSMux device (a mux rather than a demux): Alain Volmat
> >>>>>>>> - dmabuf status, esp. with regards to being able to test
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>   (Mauro/Samsung)
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> - Device tree support (Guennadi, not known yet whether this topic
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>   is needed) - Creating/selecting contexts for hardware that
> >>>>>>>>   supports this (Samsung, only if time is available)
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> This last topic will likely require lots of brainstorming, and
> >>>>>>> thus time. If the schedule permits, would anyone be interested in
> >>>>>>> meeting earlier during the week already ?
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> My intention was to also possibly discuss it with others before the
> >>>>>> actual media workshop. Would be nice if we could have arranged such
> >>>>>> a meeting. I'm not sure about the room conditions though. It's
> >>>>>> probably not a big issue, unless there is really many people
> >>>>>> interested in that topic.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> A small room with a projector would be nice if possible, although not
> >>>>> required. Who would be interested in attending a brainstorming session
> >>>>> on contexts ?
> >>>> 
> >>>> I would be, but the problem is that the conference is also interesting.
> >>> 
> >>> More interesting than a brainstorming session about hardware contexts ?
> >>> ;-) There's of course talks I want to attend, but I can probably skip
> >>> some of them.
> >>> 
> >>>> The only day I have really available is the Friday *after* the summit.
> >>> 
> >>> We'll probably need several brainstorming sessions anyway. I'd like to
> >>> organize one before the media summit though, as we'll have limited time
> >>> to discuss the topic during the summit, which doesn't suit brainstorming
> >>> sessions very well.
> >> 
> >> Sylwester, would Samsung be able to prepare for a brainstorming session
> >> on Monday or Tuesday? Both Laurent and myself have presentations on
> >> Wednesday, so that's not the best day for such a session.
> 
> Kamil has presentation on Tuesday so there would be only Monday left.
> 
> >> Do you think we should do a half-day or a full day session on this?
> > 
> > Half a day should be more than enough to start with. The topic is quite
> > complex, and we'll need to sleep over it, several times. A full day would
> > just result in brain overheat. I was thinking more in the line of
> > starting our thought process, so maybe twice an hour or two hours would
> > be good. That would allow us to attend the ELCE talks as well :-)
> > (there's definitely a couple of them that I would like to listen to).
> 
> I agree, I wouldn't like to loose whole day of the conference for that
> as well. One, two hours for the starters could be sufficient. So we can
> possibly agree on some initial idea and could get back to it later.
> I don't think I have already material for a full day session.

One hour, possibly twice, would have my preference. That shouldn't be too 
difficult to organize. When will you and Kamil arrive ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart