Re: [PATCH v16 00/22] media: i2c: add Maxim GMSL2/3 serializer and deserializer drivers

[Ceclan Dumitru <mitrutzceclan@gmail.com>]

On 8/31/26 8:03 PM, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for  your continued effort pushing this work forward!
> 
> On 2026-08-31 16:21:19 +0300, Dumitru Ceclan via B4 Relay wrote:
>> This series adds new drivers for multiple Maxim GMSL2 and GMSL3 devices,
>> replacing the few GMSL2 drivers already in upstream, and introducing a
>> common framework that can be used to implement such GMSL chips, which
>> avoids code duplication while also adding support for previously
>> unsupported features.
>>
>> While the normally acceptable and polite way would be to extend the
>> current mainline drivers, the choice was made here to add a totally new
>> set of drivers. The current drivers support only a small subset of the
>> possible features, and only a few devices, so the end result after
>> extending them would in any case be essentially fully rewritten, new
>> drivers.
>>
>> This series depends on support for internal pads, for which a patch has
>> been added.
> 
> It also depends on enabling the streams API right? At least I need to do 
> so to be able to use the TPG. Out of curiosity do you know the plan to 
> enable it by default upstream?
> 

I do not know when default enable is planned, but series could make it
so VIDEO_MAXIM_SERDES selection causes v4l2_subdev_enable_streams_api=1.
  I am not sure that such a hack would be acceptable by Sakari or
upstream in general.

>> The drivers have been tested on the following hardware combinations, 
>> but
>> further testing is welcome to ensure no / minimal breakage:
>> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX9296A + 2xMAX96717 + 2xIMX219
>> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96714 + 1xMAX96717 + 1xIMX219
>> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96716A + 2xMAX96717 + 2xIMX219
>> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96712 + 4xMAX96717 + 4xIMX219
>> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96724 + 4xMAX96717 + 4xIMX219
>> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96792A + 1xMAX96793 + 1xMAX96717 + 2xIMX219
>> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96792A + 2xMAX96717 + 2xIMX219
>> * Renesas V4H + MAX96712 + 2xMAX96717 + 2xIMX219
> 
> I tested the TPG on Renesas V3U + MAX96712 and it works as just as good 
> or better then the staging driver this work makes obsolete.
>