Re: Integrate camera interface of OMAP3530 in Angstrom Linux

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Hi Andreas,

On Monday 01 October 2012 15:07:26 Andreas Nagel wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> thanks for your reply.
> 
> Using a current mainline kernel is a little problematic. Recently I
> compiled the 2.6.39 and it wasn't able to boot at all. The reason for
> this are probably the chips, that are built on the CPU module. Usually,
> a working kernel for this module was undergoing some modifications by
> Technexion because of these chips.

That's why vendors should push board support to the mainline kernel.

> Currently, Technexion only offers the 2.6.32. and 2.6.37 kernel. The
> latter one makes a new device node /dev/media0 available (after
> activating some 'experimental' marked options in the kernel config), but
> I wasn't able to capture any signal.
> 
> I'm going to try the latest mainline kernel, but I doubt it will work.

Probably not out of the box, you will likely have to port board support from 
the vendor-specific kernel to mainline.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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