On Monday, June 27, 2011 15:57:21 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em 27-06-2011 02:54, Hans Verkuil escreveu: > > On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 20:33:34 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > >> Media subsystem workshop 2011 - Prague - Oct 24-26 > >> > >> Since 2007, we're doing annual mini-summits for the media subsystem, > >> in order to plan the new features that will be introduced there. > >> > >> Last year, during the Kernel Summit 2010, it was decided that the Kernel > >> Summit 2011 format will be modified, in order to strength the interaction > >> between the several sub-system mini-summits and the main Kernel Summit. > >> If this idea works well, the next Kernel Summits will also follow the > >> same format. > >> > >> So, some mini-summits were proposed to happen together with the Kernel > >> Summit 2011. Among a few others, the Media subsystem was accepted to be > >> held with this year's Kernel Summit. > >> > >> So, we'd like to announce that the Media subsystem workshop 2011 will > >> happen together with the Kernel Summit 2011. > > > > Great! > > > >> The Media subsystem workshop is on early planning stages, but the idea > >> is that we'll have an entire day to do the media discussions. We'll > >> also planning to have workshop presentations inside the Kernel Summit > >> 2011 with the workshop and Kernel Summit attendants present, where > >> workshop results will be presented. > >> > >> So, I'd like to invite V4L, DVB and RC developers to submit proposals > >> for the themes to be discussed. Please email me if you're interested > >> on being invited for the event. > > (as you've replied in priv, I'm not c/c the ML, but, IMO, the better would > be if you could write it to the ML as well). Added the ML. > > > > It's terribly early for proposals (it's a fast moving subsystem), but I think > > one theme for the workshop is to take a good look at our V4L2 Spec and decide > > on and fix any ambiguities that remain. > > Agreed. I'd say more: we should look not only at the V4L part of the spec, but also > at the DVB part. I hope that we can get interests from some DVB developers to be > there also. Indeed. > > I hope to continue my work on > > v4l2-compliance and as part of that I keep a list of such problems. > > Yes, a compliance tool is a good thing to do. Too bad there isn't a single driver that complies :-) > > Another, related, topic is to determine the overall state of the subsystem: > > the good, the bad and the ugly :-) And to prioritize work accordingly. > > Good point. > > > One thing I hope to work on this year is to clean up drivers and use the > > compliance tool to make them behave consistently. I'd be happy to present > > results of testing for a wide range of hardware at the workshop. > > Seems a good topic for me. Regards, Hans -- 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
