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

[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

Steve