On Sunday 15 March 2009 23:23:38 Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:10:01 +0000 > > Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The primary control on this chip related to shutter rate is actualy > > the frame rate. There are rather complex (and largerly undocumented) > > interactions between this setting and the auto brightness controls > > etc. Anyone have any suggestions on a better way of specifying this? > > Welcome to the world of the ov7670! My conclusion, after working with > this sensor, is that is consists of something like 150 analog tweakers > disguised as digital registers. Everything interacts with everything > else, many of the settings are completely undocumented, and that's not > to mention the weird multiplexor at 0x79. It's hard to make this thing > work if you don't have a blessed set of settings from OmniVision. > > > Clearly this driver shares considerable portions of code with > > Jonathan Corbet's driver (in tree). It would be complex to combine > > the two drivers, but perhaps people feel this would be worthwhile? > > I think it's necessary, really. Having two drivers for the same device > seems like a bad idea. As Hans noted, he's already put quite a bit of > work into generalizing the ov7670 driver; I think it would be best to > work with him to get a driver that works for everybody. Just FYI: I'll try to get my ov7670 code merged this week. I'm waiting for Mauro to merge a pending pull request of mine, and then I'll rebase my 'cafe2' tree and send out a pull request for it. Regards, Hans -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
