Re: Migrate from soc_camera to v4l2

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Hello Guennadi,

Am Mittwoch, den 13.07.2011, 09:14 +0200 schrieb Guennadi Liakhovetski:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, LBM wrote:
> 
> > my dear Guennadi
> >      I'm wrong about that "v4l2-int-device",maybe it just "V4L2".  
> >        Now i have a board of OMAP3530 and a cmos camera MT9M111,so i want to get the image from the mt9m111.
> >  and ,I want to use the V4L2 API. But in the linux kernel 2.6.38,the driver of the mt9m111 is  a soc_camera.I see some thing about how to convert the soc_camera to V4L2,like "soc-camera: (partially) convert to v4l2-(sub)dev API".
> >       Can you tell me how to migrate from soc_camera to v4l2,and
> >      or do you tell me some experience about that?
> 
> Currently there's no standard way to make a driver to work with both 
> soc-camera and (pure) v4l2-subdev APIs. It is being worked on:
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg34878.html
> 
> and, hopefully, beginning with the next kernel version 3.1 it will become 
> at least theoretically possible. For now you just have to hack the driver 
> yourself for your local uses by removing all soc-camera specific code and 
> replacing it with your own glue, something along these lines:

We are also interested in the support of the MT9M111 and MT9V022 for OMAP-4460/OMAP-4430/OMAP-3525.
I have not taken a deeper look at it yet. But what do you mean by theoretically possible?
Could it work out of the box? Or is there more work to do? 

Regards,
Teresa

> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/11486/focus=11691
> 
> Thanks
> Guennadi
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