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) A quick update on the mini-summit: it looks like it will be in June. The place and date are still not fixed, unfortunately. Hopefully I will know more soon. 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
