Re: [PATCH 1/6] media: ov5693: Add support for a privacy-led GPIO

[Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 02:14:46PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 01:53:55PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 1:50 PM Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 12:21:12PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > On 12/2/22 11:54, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > > Note the need for an index -> name map is standard for all GPIOs
> > > > on ACPI platforms.
> > >
> > > It's funny how ARM platforms were criticized for their need of board
> > > files, with x86/ACPI being revered as a saint. Now we have DT on ARM and
> > > x86 needs board files :-)
> > 
> > I believe it's a misunderstanding here due to missing words at Hans'
> > statement, i..e.
> > "..., which do not provide the descriptions in _DSD() method."
> > 
> > So, no, x86 does not need board files generally speaking. The problem
> > here is some departments of some big companies that didn't get ACPI
> > properly or at all.
> 
> When it comes to camera support, that seems to cover an overwhelming
> majority of systems, if not all of them.

Not those shipped with ChromeOS. In the future the BIOS folks would ideally
base this on MIPI DisCo for Imaging. The spec should be out soon:

<URL:https://www.mipi.org/specifications/mipi-disco-imaging>

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Sakari Ailus