Hi Hans, On Friday 12 February 2010 15:50:08 Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi all, > > During the Linux Plumbers Conference in September 2009 I organized a > V4L-DVB mini-summit. The focus of that summit was on discussing a > framework through which we could support all the functionality that the > video hardware of modern embedded devices provides. > > It was a very successful summit and a lot of work has been done since that > time. See this posting for to get an idea of what was discussed for those > who were not present: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg10136.html > > Since that time we have added a new API to support HDTV formats, a new > event API is almost ready, a lot of work is being done on the media > controller API with omap3 as guinea pig and Samsung has done work on the > memory handling of V4L2. > > From April 12th to 14th the CELF Embedded Linux Conference is held in > San Francisco, and it is co-located with the Linux Foundation Collaboration > Summit (April 14th-16th). Links to these conferences are here: > > http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/elc_2010/index.html > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit > > I will be doing a presentation on the new framework during the ELC. > > Since this conference is about 6 months after the mini-summit I consider > this a good time to organize a new V4L2 Media Controller mini-summit to > discuss progress and future work in this area. I think that particular > attention should be given to how we are going to do memory handling. The > proposals from Samsung have received very little attention and we should > discuss those in more detail. > > I do not know on which dates exactly such a summit can take place. There > are three possibilities: > > April 10-11/12 > April 12-14 > April 14/15-16 > > I think that registering for the ELC gives to free access to the > Collaboration Summit, but I'm waiting for a confirmation on that. > > I'm not keen on the center option (12-14 April) since that often means that > you don't see a lot of the conference itself. And the ELC is generally > quite interesting. > > There is another alternative and that is that I organize a mini-summit in > May in Lysaker (near Oslo, Norway) at the Tandberg offices. But frankly I > think that it is more fun to do this during/before/after a conference. If > only because there are a lot of linux kernel experts on hand during such a > conference that you can ask for help if needed. > > Please let me know asap if you are interested in attending such a > mini-summit and what dates are possible for you: > > a: April 10-11 (or 12) > b: April 12-14 > c: April 14 (or 15)-16 > d: Somewhere in May (suggestions for dates are welcome) I'm not keen on the B option either. C is definitely impossible for me, leaving only A and D. My preference currently goes for D as I'm not sure yet if I will be able to attend the ELC. I should have more information in the next few days. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- 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
