Re: DMABUF V4L2 patches got merged

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Hi Aditya.

FYI, just in case you have not seen this email.

Thanks,
Thomas.


On 26 November 2012 01:32, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today, I finally merged the DMABUF V4L2 patches from Tomasz.
>
> The DMABUF allows replacing the old V4L2 Overlay method by something more
> robust and safer.
>
> It was a long road to get them ready for their upstream inclusion, and to
> be able to test on both embedded and personal computers.
>
> Along this weekend, I was able to test it using 4 different test scenarios:
>
>         - vivi + s5p-tv;
>         - uvcvideo + fimc (m2m) + s5p-tv;
>         - s5k4ecgx + fimc (m2m) + s5p-tv;
>         - uvcvideo + i915.
>
> The first 3 tests ran on a Samsung Origen Rev. A board; the 4th one on a
> notebook, with a Sandy Bridge i5core processor with GPU, and an embedded
> UVC camera.
>
> While testing the s5k4ecgx sensor driver, I also added support for multiplane
> at libv4l, via its plugin interface:
>
>         http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/commit/ced1be346fe4f61c864cba9d81f66089d4e32a56
>
> Such tests wouldn't be possible without the help of Linaro and Samsung,
> with donated me some hardware for the tests, and Ideas on Board for making
> uvcvideo + i915 driver to work especially for this test.
>
> Thank you all for your support!
>
> In particular, Sylwester helped me a lot to fix several non-related issues with
> the Origen board, that was not running with an upstream Kernel.
>
> There are a number of patches required to make the Origen board to work with an
> Upstream Kernel. Also, its sensor driver (s5k4ecgx) was not submitted upstream
> yet. In order to help others that may need to do similar tests, I added the
> needed patches on my experimental tree, at branch origen+dmabuf:
>
>         http://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/shortlog/refs/heads/origen%2Bdmabuf
>
> Still missing there are the wireless/bluetooth support. It seems that there are
> some patches for it already, but they aren't submitted upstream, nor I didn't
> test they.
>
> I expect that Linaro and Samsung will be able to submit real soon the pending
> patches needed by Origen in time for its addition on 3.8.
>
> Thank you all!
> Mauro
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