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Subject: Re: RFC: New format V4L2_PIX_FMT_Y16_BE ?
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On 03/26/2015 09:23 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Hello
> 
> While debugging a v4l2<->gstreamer interaction problem, I have
> realized that we were implementing Y16 wrong in our cameras :S. What
> we were implementing was a big endian version of the format.
> 
> If I want to add support for our Y16_BE format to the kernel, would it
> be enough to change videodev2.h, add the documentation for the format
> and update libv4lconvert?

Yes, but you might want to wait 1-2 weeks: I'm going to make a patch
that moves the ENUMFMT description into the v4l2 core. So you want to be on
top of that patch. I posted an RFC patch for that earlier (last week I
think).

Regards,

	Hans