Re: [PATCH] media: staging: drop omap4iss

[Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>]

Am Mon, 2 Sep 2024 10:42:31 +0200
schrieb Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>:

> The omap4 camera driver has seen no progress since forever, and
> now OMAP4 support has also been dropped from u-boot (1). So it is
> time to retire this driver.
> 

Argumenting with OMAP4 support in U-Boot is silly. That indicates that
there is no movement in keeping u-boot uptodate. Bootloader
development/updating is more risky especially if not done by the vendor,
good chances to brick something. And the bootloader might need
signing. So that argument is done nothing.

Better arguments would be to check if someone has something cooking and
feels not comfortable yet to climb Mount Upstream.

A good place to ask would be the omap platform
list: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org

I get still devicetrees for omap4 devices to review. So there is some
activity with omap4. If you look at postmarketOS you see also some
activity.

And also someone ported the driver to devicetree support:
https://github.com/iridia-ulb/meta-builderbot/blob/master/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-stable-4.16/0008-omap4iss-Fix-multiple-bugs-and-use-device-tree.patch

So the situation is not that simple. I am still evaluating it because I
myself have a device with omap4 and camera.

Regards,
Andreas