Hi all, Well, I certainly fired everyone up with my RFC. Based on the replies I got I do think the time is right to start the removal process. Phase 1 would be to convert the remaining V4L1 drivers. To see what needs to be done I decided to analyse the remaining V4L1 drivers: - usbvideo (really four drivers: vicam, ibmcam, konicawc, quickcam_messenger) Hans de Goede added support for the quickcam_messenger to gspca, so that driver is scheduled for removal. Devin has hardware to test the vicam driver. David Ellingsworth has hardware to test the ibmcam driver. It would be great if Devin and David can either send it to Hans de Goede or work on it themselves. The konicawc is for an Intel YC76 webcam. I found one for sale here: http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=6593985 Unfortunately the seller does not ship to the Netherlands or to Norway. Can some kind US developer buy it and donate it to Hans de Goede? It's fairly expensive at $39.99, but it's for a good cause. So in theory all these drivers can be tested and converted. - bw-qcam A parallel port Connectix QuickCam webcam. To my knowledge no one has hardware to test this. However, it should not be hard to convert this to V4L2, even without having hardware since this driver doesn't do any streaming or DMA. - c-qcam A parallel port color Connectix QuickCam webcam. To my knowledge no one has hardware to test this. However, it should not be hard to convert this to V4L2, even without having hardware since this driver doesn't do any streaming or DMA. - w9966 A parallel port LifeView FlyCam Supra webcam. To my knowledge no one has hardware to test this. However, it should not be hard to convert this to V4L2, even without having hardware since this driver doesn't do any streaming or DMA. - cpia_pp Parallel port webcam driver for the Creative Webcam II. I found one on eBay, so with luck I can get hold of the hardware and get it to HdG. - cpia_usb USB variant of cpia_pp. Deprecated since it is now supported by gspca. - stradis Supports the Stradis SDM-275 4:2:2 MPEG-2 video decoder. I just found one on eBay and bought it. This being an MPEG decoder I think that I will try to convert this to V4L2. It does not look like that will be very difficult. - arv Driver for the the Renesas AR module on the M32700UT platform. Looking at this driver it seems that it should be very easy to convert this to v4l2. It's very basic and has no DMA or streaming support. We can try contacting the author to see whether he can test a converted driver. Or perhaps try and find the maintainer for this platform. - ov511 - ovcamchip - w9968cf - stv680 Deprecated. Are now supported by gspca. - se401 Hans de Goede has hardware. The current V4L1 driver does not work. Kconfig mistakes: I found four errors in drivers/media/video/Kconfig: the saa7191, meye, mxb and cpia2 drivers are all marked as V4L1 only, while all support V4L2! The cpia2 driver supports both v4l1 and v4l2. I can test this driver and will look at removing the V4L1 support from that driver. Conclusion: These drivers have no hardware to test with: bw-qcam, c-qcam, arv, w9966. However, all four should be easy to convert to v4l2, even without hardware. Volunteers? Hardware is available for these drivers: se401, ibmcam, vicam. If Devin and David can either donate the hardware to HdG or do the work themselves, then these drivers can all be moved to gspca. Hardware is ordered for the stradis driver. I'll do that one. The V4L1 support should be removed from the cpia2 driver, leaving just the V4L2 API. I can do that. It is very likely that I can get hold of a cpia_pp device. I'll make sure that HdG gets it. That leaves the konicawc. We need a friendly US citizen who is willing to buy one and donate it to HdG. So if we all pitch in, then can get everything converted without having to remove drivers. 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
