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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- 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
