Re: Missing MIPI IPU6 camera driver for Intel Alder Lake laptops

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 03:43:48PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (22/08/15 08:36), Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 11:06:39AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > On (22/08/11 17:30), Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 06:08:55PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 05:02:40PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 04:54:53PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > > > > > For the time being, I agree with your recommendation to not buy these
> > > > > > > devices if you care about camera support.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I second this, don't buy these devices if the vendor is not willing to
> > > > > > get their drivers upstreamed properly.
> > > > > 
> > > > > "Not willing" may be a bit too harsh here. I wouldn't just blame Intel
> > > > > for not upstreaming a driver if it turns out that the V4L2 API isn't a
> > > > > good match and we have no proposal to provide an alternative.
> > > > 
> > > > Did they propose an alternative?  From what I saw here they didn't even
> > > > attempt it, or did I miss that?
> > > 
> > > The plan here is to land CAM kernel API first and then switch IPU
> > > (driver and user-space) to it so that upstreaming for Intel will
> > > be easier.
> > 
> > And what is the timeframe on the plan?  Where will these changes be sent
> > to for review?  I'm guessing they are already in a shipping device so
> > what's the delay?
> 
> We haven't sent out KCAM for upstream review yet. It's open sourced,
> as of this moment [1], but we still need some time and wanted to convert
> one of the previous generations of IPU drivers (IPU3) to KCAM first to
> see if everything is working as we wanted it to.

That didn't answer my question on when you were planning to actually
submit this :)

thanks,

greg k-h