From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from lb1-smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net ([194.109.24.21]:37968 "EHLO lb1-smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755175AbcARNbY (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2016 08:31:24 -0500 To: Linux Media Mailing List From: Hans Verkuil Subject: [RFC] Removal of the Timberdale v4l2 drivers timblogiw & radio-timb Cc: richard@puffinpack.se, Samuel Ortiz Message-ID: <569CE927.9040000@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:31:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The Timberdale FPGA video and radio drivers have not seen any real development since 2011 (and very little before that). One of the problems with the timblogiw driver is that it uses videobuf instead of the newer vb2 framework. Our long term goal is to either convert or remove any driver still using videobuf. Since none of the core v4l developers has the hardware, we cannot convert it ourselves. As far as I can tell it was only used in an Intel demo board in 2009 using Meego: http://www.chinait.com/intelcontent/intelprc/admin/PDFFile/20106411545.pdf which has since been superseded. I am inclined to remove the Timberdale support from drivers/media. First by moving it to staging for one or two kernel releases, and then removing it altogether. Anyone still using it today would almost certainly be stuck on an old kernel. Comments? Regards, Hans