Hi Andreas, On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 08:00:25PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote: > Am Mon, 2 Sep 2024 10:42:31 +0200 schrieb Hans Verkuil : > > > The omap4 camera driver has seen no progress since forever, and > > now OMAP4 support has also been dropped from u-boot (1). So it is > > time to retire this driver. > > Argumenting with OMAP4 support in U-Boot is silly. That indicates that > there is no movement in keeping u-boot uptodate. Bootloader > development/updating is more risky especially if not done by the vendor, > good chances to brick something. And the bootloader might need > signing. So that argument is done nothing. > > Better arguments would be to check if someone has something cooking and > feels not comfortable yet to climb Mount Upstream. > > A good place to ask would be the omap platform > list: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > I get still devicetrees for omap4 devices to review. So there is some > activity with omap4. If you look at postmarketOS you see also some > activity. > > And also someone ported the driver to devicetree support: > https://github.com/iridia-ulb/meta-builderbot/blob/master/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-stable-4.16/0008-omap4iss-Fix-multiple-bugs-and-use-device-tree.patch > > So the situation is not that simple. I am still evaluating it because I > myself have a device with omap4 and camera. Have you tested the camera recently ? The omap4iss driver has been unmaintained in mainline for a very, very long time, and I would be surprised if it worked. If someone is interested in taking over maintainership and improving the driver to get it out of drivers/staging/ to drivers/media/, the removal can certainly be reverted. drivers/staging/ is not a place where drivers are left to bitrot, it's meant for active development of code not fully ready for mainline yet. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
