> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-media-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-media- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Laurent Pinchart > Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 1:29 PM > To: manjunathan.padua@xxxxxxxxx; Guennadi Liakhovetski > Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Regarding OMAP 35xx ISP subsystem and SoC-Camera > > Hi Manjunathan, > [Hiremath, Vaibhav] Just clarifying some the things - > On Friday 28 May 2010 15:54:57 manjunathan.padua@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Dear Linux-media group > > I am a newbie and have recently started working on integration of a new > > camera sensor MT9M112 sensor with OMAP ISP Camera subsystem on a OMAP 3530 > > based custom board. So I checked in mainline kernel if driver is > > available for this camera sensor and I found it in the > > Linux/driver/media/video/mt9m11.c, this supports both MT9M111 and MT9M112. > > It is based on SoC-Camera framework. But unfortunately this is not > > compatible with OMAP 35xx Camera ISP subsystem as OMAP camera ISP > > subsystem is based on V4L2-INT. > > The OMAP3 ISP driver doesn't use the deprecated V4L2 int-device API anymore. > The latest version of the driver can be found in the omap3camera tree on > gitorious (make sure you checkout the devel branch). > [Hiremath, Vaibhav] Manjunathan, Please note that this is based on Media controller concept which is new framework or interface we are working on. > > Also I got know that there are there are 3 different frameworks for camera > > sensor drivers in Linux > > a. V4L2-INT is deprecated but currently supported by OMAP35xx ISP Linux > BSP > > b. SoC-Camera is also deprecated. > > c. Sub-Device is the current architecture supported from Open source > > community > > > > 1. Is this understanding correct ? > > That's correct. The OMAP35xx ISP driver in the Linux BSP is also deprecated > :-) > > > 2. Since V4L2-INT and SoC-Camera frameworks are deprecated, can you please > > let me know the roadmap for Sub-Device framework ? > > The soc-camera framework isn't deprecated, but it isn't used by the OMAP3 > ISP > driver either. > [Hiremath, Vaibhav] Laurent, I believe going forward this SoC-Camera will get also deprecated and all drivers will be migrated to sub-device framework. Thanks, Vaibhav > > 3. What is the best option/recommendation from community for me to > integrate > > MT9M112 with Camera ISP system on OMAP 3530 based board ? > > The dependencies on the soc-camera framework in the MT9M112 driver need to > be > removed. I've CC'ed Guennadi Liakhovetski to this e-mail, he's the author of > the soc-camera framework and should be able to provide information on what > is > required. > > > 4. And lastly are there any other different camera sensors which have Sub- > > Device based drivers available in Mainline Linux? > > Not that I know of, but there's a video decoder driver (tvp5150). > > -- > 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 -- 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
