> >> > On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 04:02:52PM -0500, Umang Jain wrote: > >> >> This series aims to upport bcm2835-isp from the RPi kernel. > >> >> It is developed on top of staging-next which comprises many > >> >> VC04 changes for it's de-staging. Hence, the merge of this > >> >> driver is targeted when VC04 is de-staged completely (which I > >> >> have been pushing), but it can be helped getting reviewed meanwhile. > >> >> Hence, the reason for posting the series. > >> > > >> > Related question, what do people think about dropping the legacy > >> > firmware-based bcm2385-camera driver once this gets merged ? > >> > firmware-based camera operation is deprecated by Raspberry Pi, and > >> > doesn't work on the Pi 5 > >> > >> i don't remember exactly, but wasn't the bcm2835-camera required for > >> Pi > >> Camera V1.3? > > > > If I'm not mistaken (Dave can correct me), the legacy camera stack > > works > > only with the Raspberry Pi official camera v1, v2 and HQ modules. > > Raspberry Pi has switched to a new camera stack based on libcamera, > > which works on the Pi Zero 2, Pi 3, Pi 4 and Pi 5. This new stack > > supports the same camera modules as the legacy stack, and many more. > > The > > legacy stack doesn't work on Pi 5 at all. > > > >> At the end cannot speak for the users. AFAIK OpenSuSE and Fedora use > >> the > >> driver. > > Guillaume (in CC) is more authoritative about this topic, but as long we > have > smooth migration plan I am more than happy to switch to proper camera > driver. >From a Fedora PoV I am more than happy to move to the new libcamera based stack for the RPi camera, IMO sooner the better :)
