On Tuesday 15 September 2009 22:24:41 Brandon Philips wrote: > On 19:19 Tue 15 Sep 2009, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > We have a room available all three days, so that makes life easier for us. > > > > I assume that most people will want to attend at least the keynote speeches, > > so I'm scheduling around that. > > Thanks for organizing this. But, I have other priorities and things I > want to discuss during the conference. I don't think I can attend a > full three days. That's no problem. > > So Wednesday we start at 10:00 after the keynote (except for those > > attending the audio track) and go on until 15:00 (yes, you are > > allowed to have lunch :-) ). > > > > Thursday we can start at 9:00 until 16:00. > > I wish I had seen this sooner so we could have done something like the > Networking folks and met while LinuxCon was going on instead. I > thought the V4L meetup was going to be a regular BoF. I'll actually attend LinuxCon as well, so we can talk then as well. > > Friday starts with a V4L2 BoF followed by two v4l presentations, so > > we will only have a session from 13:30 - 16:00. I suggest we use > > that to wrap up. > > After dicussing this a bit Hans and I cut it down to a single 45 > minute slot with each of us doing a 20 or so minutes. Good to know. > > The main discussion points are these RFCs: > > > > - V2.1 Media Controller RFC: > > - Bus and data format negotiation (addresses open issue #3 of the MC RFC): > > - Support for video timings at the input/output interface (aka support for HDTV): > > - Allow bridge drivers to have better control over DVB frontend operations: > > > We have some other topics as well (in no particular order): > > - mercurial vs git, how important is backwards compatibility to us? > > - how to do events in V4L? > > - is it possible to create a pool of buffers that we can pass around to > > various video nodes? > > - others? > > > > My plan is to use the Wednesday to start with the media controller, make sure > > that everyone understands what it is and what it is not and perhaps look at > > one embedded device to see how well it would work. The afternoon we can look > > at some of the other topics. > > Can you plan on a quick overview of the RFCs and in particular how far > along the hardware is and how it is implemented early in the morning? Yes, it will start with an overview of the RFCs and their status. > An hour by hour schedule with when you plan on discussing what would > be very helpful. I find meetings that have too open ended of a > schedule have a tendency to rat-hole ;) The media controller discussions are hard to plan, but on Wednesday after lunch I plan on discussing the HDTV timings proposal. That's a high prio feature that we need to add soon and it does not depend on the media controller. There are a few open issues there, in particular when it relates to sensors. > > I hope that on Thursday we can go over the media controller in more detail, > > esp. with regards to other embedded devices, current and (if possible) > > upcoming. > > An overview of the current hardware implementation would be nice on > Wed. It seems to be missing from the RFCs. We should have something on that as well on Wednesday. Regards, Hans > > Thanks, > > Brandon > -- > 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 > > -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG Telecom -- 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
