From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com ([95.142.166.194]:44561 "EHLO perceval.ideasonboard.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755623Ab2EJOZ7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 10:25:59 -0400 From: Laurent Pinchart To: Hans de Goede Cc: Sergio Aguirre , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Atsuo Kuwahara , sakari.ailus@iki.fi Subject: Re: Advice on extending libv4l for media controller support Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 16:26:01 +0200 Message-ID: <1531842.14LCmpGIx7@avalon> In-Reply-To: <4FABCEBA.7080609@redhat.com> References: <4FABCEBA.7080609@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Hans, On Thursday 10 May 2012 16:20:42 Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > I somehow missed the original mail. This is in essence the same problem > as with the omap3 and Laurent and Sakari and I did a design for that > in Brussels in the last quarter of 2011, Laurent and Sakari would work > on fleshing that out, so it is probably best to talk to them about this. Let's get Sakari into the loop then. I think he's the most knowledgeable about this, even though no implementation has been released (Nokia killing MeeGo obviously didn't help). > On 05/10/2012 03:54 PM, Sergio Aguirre wrote: > > +Atsuo > > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Sergio Aguirre wrote: > >> Hi Hans, > >> > >> I'm interested in using libv4l along with my omap4 camera project to > >> adapt it more easily to Android CameraHAL, and other applications, to > >> reduce complexity of them mostly... > >> > >> So, but the difference is that, this is a media controller device I'm > >> trying to add support for, in which I want to create some sort of plugin > >> with specific media controller configurations, to avoid userspace to > >> worry about component names and specific usecases (use sensor resizer, or > >> SoC ISP resizer, etc.). > >> > >> So, I just wanted to know your advice on some things before I start > >> hacking your library: > >> > >> 1. Should it be the right thing to add a new subfolder under "lib/", > >> named like "libomap4iss-mediactl" or something like that ? > >> 2. Do you know if anyone is working on something similar for any other > >> Media Controller device ? > >> > >> Thanks in advance for your inputs. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Sergio -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart