2016-02-10 8:40 GMT+01:00 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>: > The Timberdale FPGA video driver has not seen any real development > since 2011 (and very little before that). > > One of the problems with the timblogiw driver is that it uses videobuf > instead of the newer vb2 framework. The long term goal is to either > convert or remove any driver still using videobuf. Since none of the > core v4l developers has the hardware, we cannot convert it ourselves. > > As far as I can tell it was only used in an Intel demo board in 2009 > using Meego: > > http://www.chinait.com/intelcontent/intelprc/admin/PDFFile/20106411545.pdf > > which has since been superseded. > > Moving this driver to staging is the first step towards removal. After 2 or > 3 kernel cycles it will be removed altogether unless someone steps up to > clean up this driver. Acked-by: Richard Röjfors <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
